Road Trip Part 1 (A Little Boat Ramp Called Prospect

A few days ago I returned from a trip that took us over 1750 miles, 175 of which spent floating 3 different rivers.  Flows on the upper North Platte were still about 650 cfs so we started off for Saratoga and a nasty road to a boat launch known as Prospect.  I now understand how this road is rendered impassable after even the slightest rain and my anticipation grew as we crept down a narrow canyon towards the river.  Saratoga was a buzz of activity that morning but almost all of the traffic would be from Bennet Peak downriver.  We launched the boat at about 9:00 that morning and began chucking streamers immediately.  Even with bright sun we hooked several browns immediately and were getting follows every other cast.  When the streamer action started to slow I picked up a another rod and right away started hooking fish on size 10 and 12 stimulators.  There were yellow sallies, a few pmd's, and tons of caddis, especially closer to dark.  We caught fish all day on dries and, the biggest of which was just over 20 inches.  The scenery is spectacular and there is a smaller micro canyon lower down that fishes well with streamers and big dries.  The float took about 10 hours and with higher flows putting in at 6 mile with a raft and some pontoon boats would be a killer all day float at 25 miles.  Pick to Bennet is about 17 miles and if the flows were closer to 1000 the fishing would have been even better.  Can't wait to go back, maybe float Northgate to Six Mile in the fall, late October or early November.