Solo hour

Korkers had just sent me the their new demo boots to run thru the ringer so i decided to run to the river real quick. caught a few fish

A day out

 Me and matt fished a bit upstream and although the weather turned out pretty nice for a late december day, the fishing was about as bad as ive seen it there. i think the fish are still getting reacclimated to normal life after the spawn. we got thru our section pretty quickly cause of the water conditions. matt decided to call it a day. it was only 10:30 so i headed downstream to check on a place that i hadnt seen since this past spring. it sucked as well but as i fished up the stream a little ways i did muster 1 feisty little brown

A beautiful morning

 It was a morning full of beauty but not full of fish. fishing was slow

Day 3 of bachelor wknd

 Hooked up with matt to go chase some rainbows. water was up just a little but it was perfectly fine. we nymphed the shit out of the water and matt did pretty well. i got my ass kicked. i caught 1 one a nymph and 1 on a streamer. weather for the most part was great for a late november day.

Day 2 of bachelor wknd

 Took a drive to the upper section of the wriver to see any spawn progress since the water is a bit colder up there. i did not see a single redd and didnt even see a fish till about 3/4 of my way up. then i caught a couple smaller fish and missed a few. they are still not quite ready

Doin a little dirty

 The family was out of town for  the  holidays so i got to play bachelor. it was bad ass. usually around turkey day is when i will start to head to the rivers to see if by chance the browns were done farting around on the redds. i went out on turkey day to go see how things are doing. the flows said 80cfs but when i showed up the flows looked more like 20-30 cfs. i think maybe i was not paying enough attention and looked at the run waters, as far as 80cfs goes. anyway my plan was to target the big holes hoping that fish were done with the spawn and moving into deep slow water to start their recovery. the holes were full of fish and most of the redds were vacant. there were a few that had some fish but im pretty sure they were just hanging out and not spawning. anyway the fishing wasnt that spectacular. there were some fish that were willing to eat but i really had to do a lot of indicator adjustments so as to avoid snagging the unsuspecting, non eating fish. the weather was pretty damn good and i caught some fish so it was all good except for the fact that with about 4 holes left i snapped the top section of my rod. at that point i was definitely done. oh well shit happens. its exactly how i used to spend all the holidays when i was single, fishing. sniffle sniffle

My Friday off

 Mornings for me are always difficult to get up to when my plan is a solo day. 1/2 the time it seems i say screw it and just stay in bed. i did lay in bed a bit longer then planned but i finally forced my way out. i made the 2hr journey to the lake. ran into gerald in the cove i was gonna hit. he was in his bot but i just decided to go elsewhere. i went to fish a different cove and although it started out pretty well the day never really got going for me. the weather was gorgeous and remained that way for most of the day. caught 1 whole fish for my efforts. that lake continues to kick my ass this year. only was out for 3hrs 

A day off

 I took a day off from work to go fish the strawberry with matt. middle of the week and as hoped there really wasnt anyone that we saw except we did run into gerald who was just getting rigged up. we joined him for a bit then we went our seperate ways. the fishing was ok for me and matt but gerald, as usual was killing it. the weather was gorgeous for the 1st 1/2 of the day but then the winds came but it was still a good day for weather

Winter is here

 It snowed on us all day. the temps were tolerable (about freezing). the fishing sucked and we decided to call it at about 0930. the decided to call it but ii wanted to check a different river on the other side of the pass. from the top of the pass all the way to the bottom where the river is, it was brutally windy, blowing snow and freeing so i decided fuck that. i stopped by one other river that paralleled the highway and fished a short section catching one beautifully colored brown. nothing of size but great colors.

The Berry

 went out to the berry since the browns are still spawning in the rivers. the fishing sucked the last 2 times out. i at least got my son to come out. that doesn't happen very often