Let's see.... hmmmm.... In my short experience I'd say the Kiddie Hole has
some of the toughest fish on the river. Once in a while they really get
stupid there but it's rare. The fish move in and out, there's lot's of
small fish, and they aren't really more beaten up there than elsewhere. It
gets pounded, yes, but there's about a million fish there and it's an
incredible midge factory. The bugs never stop there. Pretty amazing if you
ask me. There's only two guides that I've ever seen working there, AK and
his other guide Jerry, that's it. They don't really do much dry fly fishing
with clients (not that I've seen anyway).

I love the back bowls by the big rock (I was there Sunday), but the sight
fishing and dry fly fishing is way more consistent around KH. I spend
hardly any time there and very little around TX Hole, but you've got to
admit there's a reason that they are so crowded besides stupidity.

Don't forget that you can come see this place for yourself when we all get
together January 15-18, 2005. We'll have side trips to the Animas also.

If anyone except Willi wants to fish the Kiddie Hole all day I'll give you
$1 for every fish you catch. They aren't that easy.

By the way, it's been a few years since I've seen anyone fishing for the
fish at their feet and I can GUARANTEE you that RW's never done that. We
fish downstream and not too far out all the time but never to those pet fish
in our wake. There are fish everywhere in the Juan and we walk right up to
them and sight fish with nymphs often.

bruce h