Drove over to one of my favorite little creeks to see if i could get some love on dry flies. between black ants and different colors of parachute type mayflies it was a pretty damn good day. saw a few bugs coming off including, PMDs, BWOs and a couple of Brown Drakes dancing above one run. great day
Me and matt went back to one of my all time favorites. we fished a stretch we'd only fished a couple of times and we ended up seeing more big fish there then ever before, just couldnt get most of them to eat. matt managed a couple of a nymph dropper and i got mine on a couple different dry patterns including my 1st of the year on a mouse. the weather was beautiful
Drove over to Pineview hoping to get into something but was also unsure of the water levels. got there and as i feared the lake is full and the water line is up in the trees and bushes so there was no shore line to walk which made the fishing aspect of the morning very short lived, but i did hpwever see a couple of cruising musky but couldnt get any love. Willow however was having a blast cause the 2 places where there was just a smidge of shore she got to run around and pick of sticks and she got a good swim in playing fetch for awhile. she was exhausted at the end of it all.
Even though all the flows around these parts were high i went to check out a particular section and to my surprise it looked money. i didnt even rig up before walking to the river cause i made my doubts that the river would look good. had Willow out with me to learn more about being a river dog and other then the 1st time she had to cross the river, she did real good. she had never seen, smelled or tasted a fish but she got in plenty of that this day. the fishing ended up being pretty bad ass and one of my best days in awhile. in my opinion the weather was a plus all day as it rained the whole time i was out which kept most of the riff raff away.
Me and matt found a stretch that neither of us had fished in maybe 2 yrs. the flows dropped into perfect shape and we did manage to get into a good number of fish. weather was perfect as was the water
Myself and matt drove upstream to try and find some water that wasnt just a piss trickle. we found a small section and managed a few fish out of it. it certainly didnt fish as good as it looked but thats the way it often goes
My nephew was in town for a couple of days and was anxious to fish so i took him out for a few hours in the morning. he has only tried fly fishing a couple of times and that has only been with me. we threw streamers and he ended up landing a small fish his 1st cast. small or not he had never caught a fish on a fly rod so we were both super stoked. he ended up catching 4 and missing a few others. he was so excited and i was glad that he was able to get into some fish
