Streamers

met up with dbone for some streamer chucking. big numbers were not caught but we certainly had our chances.

Unexpected...

After the rains yesterday had blown out the river i expected to show and up and head right back home but surprisingly the river had cleared up quite a bit and was well fish-able with some big meat. started with an orange/tan voodoo queen but i lost it to a mis-placed cast. switched to an olive/white version and the fishing started to pick up. landed a few  fish with it before it was also lost to a mis-placed cast. i was a ways up river before realizing i had left my net where i released my last fish. i walked about a 1/4 mile downstream but my net was not where it should've been. there was nobody on the river so i can only assume that after i pulled the fish out of the net that i did not get the net on the bank and it went down river and i did not even realize it. at that point i also realized that my forceps and come un-clamped from my pack. all little further up stream there is a new electric fence going acrossed the river. i new it was a hot wire but i wasn't sure if it was on and as i was fishing the hole right below where the fence crosses the river, saxon confirmed for me that the fence was hot. he brushed up against and let the world know that he did not like the results. during the walk back to my jeep i ripped my waders on some barbed wire, which just capped off the day nicely. i got to hold a few fish through out the day so it was all good.

More Rains

It rained all night and when i woke up, more rains. still i wanted to fish so i arraigned to meet a couple buddies. i was almost surprised to find the water still in good shape due to lower sections being high and really staind. the morning started off fast and furious, as far as getting into fish. i moved a few and lost one while dbone landed a nice fish. a right off the bat set back for matt, on his first cast with his 3 week old sage method rod, one of the sections snapped in half. good thing he brought a back up or as it would have it, he didn't need it cause about an hour into fishing we watched the river muddy right up, putting an end to our day.even most military things don't impress me anymore, these massive movements still do.

A Full Days Work

Me and jake met up at 6am and headed to the water. when we arrived i was disappointed to see that the flows were up quite a bit and it's never fished well for me when the flows have been like that. we started with streamers but after that proved very unproductive we decided to go dirty and do some nymphing to see if our luck would change. we did manage a few fish but all smaller fish. we chose to pack up and head elsewhere. the 2nd option was looking perfect and fished much better then the 1st piece of water. we got into a few decent fish and overall had a much more productive day.

The Toothy Ones

Getting kind of wore out on fishing the local rivers for trout all the time so me and dbone headed to the lake. we weren't picky on what we caught, bass or tiger musky. dbone had spotted this musky chilln right off shore but after a couple of casts at him dbone snagged up on some shit so he told me to jump in there. it wasn't much of a take or a fight but it was the first one of season so i'm happy with that. this guy had an upper lip that was shorter then it's lower and some bug eyes to go with it. not the prettiest specimen that's for sure. earlier in the day as we were walking the shoreline was saw a wake in the shallows up ahead. i figured it was a carp milling around in the shallow mud but it was a nice musky that was chasing around a smaller fish (bout 15"). as dbone got closer to make a cast at it, it cruised out of sight, then right after this smaller fish started heading towards the deep but it didn't get more then a few feet and that musky came racing back at it. that musky was going all out for that fish and after some intense mud wrestling the musky came out with that other fish sitting sideways in the musky's mouth. we got to watch that musky slowly retreat to the depth with it's meal lodged in it's teeth. pretty sweet to watch.

It Can't Always Fish Well

Me and dbone fished low today since the water was looking quite nice. aside from me losing a slab, it was quite slow. i landed one and dbone landed two.

Post Rain

The rains the other night brought the rivers and up and stained them again. fishing was short and other then 1 fish, unproductive.