Monday, October 15, 2012

A little bump.....


In all honesty I didn't think I would be fishing today. The weatherman called for winds in the high twenties with gusts to fifty miles per hour. I knew Bill and Frank were coming down but the thought of watching my float move upstream in epic winds wasn't my think. I though for sure my vacation day would be spent lounging around.

But as things played out I received a text from Bill that he had made in to the creek and I decided to brave the conditions. The winds were bad early then periodically blew up on us but as long as you found good flow you were in business.

The rain over night and the high winds crashing the shore line bumped up the flow and colored the water enough to bring in new some new fish. We had all had some success and a wasted day turned out to have been the best of the fall.

Bill good luck in B.C. this week.

Until later..........






Sunday, October 14, 2012

Slow and slower..........






I got out this weekend a couple of times. Saturday was a solo trip with no results just nice fall scenery. Today Tom and I a put in a few hours with one fish to our credit. We hope that the projected rainfall overnight would kick things into gear but the rain was less than forecasted.The lone fish was caught in deep slow water on a stonefly imitation.

Just not much going on recently.

Until later............

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Not Quite There...............

 Hit the water before daybreak yesterday morning. The turbidity of the water wasn't quite where you want it but it was on its way down. The crisp 37 degree air temps this morning put a slight hovering mist over the water as the sun moved upward over the horizon. Today was the first morning that my old fingers felt the sting of the cold as they palmed the cold black metal of the reel.

There wasn't much competition on the stream early and it felt good to be in ones element without  hoards of others storming the water. I managed a coupled of decent fish but that was it. As I fought  one fish a father and his teenage son walked by and observed me bringing in the catch. He commented that it was a nice fish and went on his way. Ahhh finally at peace again. Ummm maybe not so much, as my head turned to my left his teenage son/ twenty something with fly rod in hand low holed me and took up residence in my tail out where I just caught the fish. I could have got angry, I could have used it as a teaching moment but that is his father's job. I decided just to take a deep breath and move on there was light pressure today and 50 other places I could fish on the flow.

Until later.............







Monday, October 8, 2012

A little bump..........


The rain Friday into Saturday bumped the creek up a little bit early in the day.  I caught a couple of fish  and by the evening into Sunday the creek had come up and turned brown. Sunday I lasted 45 minutes on the big creek fishing the brown water then poked around a few other places on the way home.

We shall she what the bump bring for this week.
 

Monday, October 1, 2012

Tough Sledding..........


Flows continue to decease from where they were a week or so ago. It's a guessing game right now. Whole sections of stream can be  a barren waste land  and then you can turn the corner to one small pool and then your in business. As for me , I am  wearing the skunk today. Bill and Frank had a little more luck but I would assume not as much as they were hoping for. I asked Bill to do a rain dance but as he stated dancing is not one of his better talents.....That leaves steelheading and the consumption of chicken wings.

A couple of Bill's fish.



Frank doing battle.




Once again extremely greatful to share the day with these good souls.


Until later....