Hello all and Happy
Halloween to all our readers. As I have said in the past, while growing up
October 31st was pretty much my favorite day of the year. I know that
with age, some of the excitement has weaned over the years but I still love
watching the kids have so much fun. I think with the less than stellar fishing conditions
this fall I have had a little more time to think of the upcoming Halloween and
I had decided this year I would resort to my youthful enthusiasms and take the
holiday to the extremes. I decided that
this year I was going dress up in the scariest costume of all time and hand out
candy to the terrified kids. I toyed with being a zombie, a vampire, wolfman,
or even Godzilla but they all said “been there” and not terrifying enough.
After serious brainstorming costume ideas it finally hit me, the scariest
costume idea of all time. As I began thinking of my costume idea, my knees
began to shake uncontrollably; my breath became short and the fear was not
allowing me to breathe. My hands were sweating and shaking so hard that I was
not able to use a keyboard in fear of sweat shorting it out. I thought about
how this creature was so terrifying that it could possibly destroy the entire
world. I talked to my family about my idea and a few of them began to gasp and
their skin began to turn blue from fear. After seeing how fearful everyone was
I knew that I had nailed the idea, so the next step was how do I carry out the
costume, how do I become Obamacare….
Okay, now that I
have really ticked off 52 % of you and the other 48% are ROFLYAO, on to
fishing. I got to the water at around3:30 today and found that a slight miracle
has happened to our river. The 4inches of clarity on Monday has cleared and I
was seeing bottom when I was in over my knees. Flows have been reduced to 171
and fishing was fantastic. I am guessing that it might because this is the
first time in several months that the fish could see the bugs in the water and
they were feeding like crazy. I think I hooked 25 or more in the 2 and a half
hours I was on the water. Winston’s foot has heeled and today was his first
time back on the water, we hooked so many that even he got bored and sat on the
bank the last several fish.Every stop seemed to produce takes, most of the fish
were in the 11 to 14 inch range but I did land several right around 18. The
thrill of the day happened at the wall when the hit nearly jerked the rod out
of my hand and snapped me off in mere seconds. Flies of the day were the FOD
and the True Blood. We have had so many calls to the shop wanting to book trips
over the last couple months and it was difficult but we talked clients out it
due to less than great conditions. If you are one of those people, the time to
book is now. I would expect conditions to stay steady and even improve between
now and the end of the year. I hate to be one of those people that says you
should have been here yesterday, so get here and that won’t be a problem. As
always, thanks for reading, Connell,Cat and Winston…
Just a few pics from today, And Winstons wants to thank all his fans for the get well wishes...
These are some beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing!
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