A Days Jaunt

me, scott and jerry took a back woods stroll to throw dries. the fishing was slow from the get go and really seemed to die down even more, after awhile. as we had thought, we fished around a bend and there were two people in the river above us. we headed back to the jeep and drove lower but the fishing never really got going this day. at one point i got frustrated with the wind and the fact that my line kept getting tangled up in my boot laces that instead of taking the time to untangle it i grabbed ahold of the line and give it a good jerk and snapped my fly line in two. scott hooked me up with a blood knot and i was good to go. sometimes you just gotta suck those kind of days up.

A Short Stretch

After leaving work i picked up saxon from the house and off we went for an hour or two. it was pretty damn slow. seems like i threw about everything, dry wise, at them. only a couple of small fish to hand and didn't move much.

GEOBASS: Nicaragua

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Afternoon Start

I kept Ali out of daycare to take her fishing, which she was excited about. we were heading to a lake that i hadn't fished before but unfortunately it rained the whole way up there with no end in sight. we had to just turn around and head home cause, although i can deal with the rain, i wasn't going to have her out in the miserable weather all day and getting sick. after we were home for awhile the sun started to pop out on this side of the canyon so i decided to head to the river for a couple of hours. even with all the vegetation taking over the river bottom, which makes it tough for streamers sometimes, i still did o.k. chris barkey's ferris fly got me into some slabby fish.

Fucking Dog

There are fish rising everywhere in this slow tailout. i hooked up with one once i went smaller but it was quickly lost. i continued to work up but it was amazingly slow, i did manage one though. i was kneeling on the rocks switching flies when i smelt a horrid smell. i was quickly thinking i should make a dental appt. i stood up to start casting but i could still smell that smell. i looked down at saxon to talk to him and i noticed a big brown spot on the back of his neck. what it was was human shit, it looked like someone, probably a kid, had diarrhea on the shore and saxon found it and proceeded to roll in it. i was so pissed, i kept trying to get it off of saxon with muddy rocks but that did not cut it. i just called it a a day right there. didn't want to spend the rest of the day fishing with that odor.

A Little Something Different

Spent the day chasing small fish on a small stream. it was a day chaulk full of cicadas and 6-13 inch fish capped off by a beautiful 15" cutt-bow. i'd only fished there once before and that was about 4-5 years ago. there were a lot more beaver dams this time around, which i think might hurt some of the fishing. come summer time it's fun to break out the light weight gear and chase smaller fish.