Smelling the Goal Line.....

Sometimes a person hears an old saying and after thinking about it has to really scratch his head. Being that the NFL season is in full swing, I was thinking about the old saying “He could smell the goal line”.  What a strange saying and how far did the saying go back? I know!  The early days of football maybe, when the game was played in cow pastures. Was the dung moved to the edges and hence the smelling of the goal line?  Maybe the cheerleaders were stationed in the endzones at sometime and the sweat smell of perfume started the saying. I guess if you really think about it, it sure is a really dumb saying….

  With the strange summer and now the rains of September the river has been off and on fishable for a month now. Cat and I made it to the river this afternoon and were surprised at the quality of the river. I would like to say that if fishing conditions were like a game of football, today we could smell the goal line. The river has steadily dropped over the last week and was down to 202 cfs this morning and we found the clarity to be between 15 and 20 inches. We made it to the river about 4:30 and my very first cast hooked a fish, a few more casts and another fish on. We moved down river and finally my first landed fish of the day. Not huge, so I guess it was like smelling the goal line but still having kicked a field goal. We moved down a little further and Cat caught lightning in a bottle (another head scratcher), she landed several in a row with the prize fish of the day a 21 incher. We finished out the day landing 10 or so and losing at least that many more. The river is close, fingers crossed the fishing should begin to catch fire soon. Fall is beginning to fill the air with a cool breeze and a few leaves beginning to turn color(yummy).With the stained water, the flies of the day were the True Blood, and a glass bead RS2 turning a few fish as well. If you look real close you can see what rod I was fishing with this evening, don't tell Winston....

  **Wanted to put out a little note about a true friend of flyfishing losing a 10f oot Scott A4 with a Ross reel this weekend in the Canon City area. If you find it or hear of anyone that may have found it please call the Drift and we can arrange the return of the rod. I will give a dozen FOD flies as a reward for the return of the rod. As always, Cat, Connell, Winston and The Drift Fly shop would like to thank you for reading…….