Fishing Reports

As is normal with the Conejos, it's pretty much up to you.  You can have the right flies on, but the fishing can be wrong if you're not on top of your Ps and Qs.  This means pattern choice up top, observing what kind of water your action is coming from, being at the right depth, and drag free if the pattern you're fishing doesn't naturally race around like a motorboat.
Turd is the word as usual, and brown worms.  Terrestrials of the black variety (be they crickets or ants), and small caddis will score on top.  Keep in mind that the adult caddis you fish came from something, and in this case, the pupae seem to be green.  If I had the time and the ganas, I'd search the undercuts with streamers for a bit, maybe lose a few flies, maybe hang a lote.

Fishing is great on the big bunny, depending on whom you ask.  PMX dries or small patch adams on longish casts are drawing consistent strikes.  But don't think you can do the bull in a china shop approach and expect to get away with it; great numbers of large fish are basking in the shallows, and they'll spook at the wave of a rod.  Learn the parachute cast, for it will give you a greater chance for the mere two feet of drag free you'll need to get them to eat, particularly on straight upstream throws. 
As for nymphs, there are two money bugs that I'd go with if I was too lazy to experiment with other money bugs like jackals, rainbow warriors and frenchies.  Can you guess what they are?

Same deal as usual, worms and turds, not worms on turds.  Pink and brown combo worms are nice, and I like fishing a dry drake this time of year to take advantage of the lingering prey image in the trouts' brains.  I like red annelids too, about size 16, to run behind my money nymphs.  Basically, I'd try it all, meaning all water, all flies, and all depths.  Then, if I score, well you know the deal.  One of my favorite Conejos searching patterns is the bugmeister, for what that's worth.  And I'd love it if somebody, me even, had the juevos to commit to streamers on a sink tip for the whole day of dredging the undercuts. 
Let me know.

It's kind of hatch time, so fish will be looking up for the big green sailboats if they aren't already.  I like fishing the banks with a hairwing drake, dropping a worm off the back.  This is especially worthwhile during the most crowded days, focusing on fish that are under the banks to escape all the humanity around. 
The beaver flats can keep you busy, the meadows, or the Pinnacles.  Basically, find yourself a parking spot, and get accustomed to the fact that you will encounter more people for a while.  But that shouldn't matter since you'll be catching fish if you keep your game simple.  In other words, don't get bogged down with too much fly switching or driving between stretches.  Fish well, fish the tight spots, and concentrate.

Drakes are hatching, for what it's worth, which is not much to the fish at this point.  Nymphs like tung teasers, jackals in #10, or dark hare's ears should cover drake feeding fish before the hatch really ramps up.
Ed and Scotty have been slapping big stones on the water and have been drumming up plenty of opportunistic feeders.
Otherwise, it's caddis, tons in the air but methinks the fish are porking so much on pupae and larvae that the adults will have to wait until ovipositing to get eaten by trout.  We know that's what they like.
A chingo of suckers are migrating out of Platoro, presumably to spawn.  You'd think a yellow or green egg would work on the oodles of trout that have followed them, but that's not what Ben and Amy found.  They got their trout on blue copper johns.  Bring lots of dope, of the bug variety that is.

Above the Lake Fork and South Fork, the water is low enough and clear enough to fish.  Fishing in the lower and upper meadows is kind of amazing for at least a few hours a day, with the bigger fish hanging out in the skinny fast riffles flowing into bend pools.  Brown worms rock the house, red and rusty grubs.  Didn't try streamers and saw a few rising fish.  In the late PM, the fish, all browns, ducked out for a break.  Good thing the scenery was so amazing; should be a super aspen year again.