Teleporting, The New Way To Fly Fish.....

  So the other day I was scanning my Facebook wall and I came across this Amazing video. The video was a four lane road and a Delivery truck and a rickshaw nearly colliding. As they slow down the video it seems that just before the collision, some sort of super human flashed in front of the rickshaw and moved it to the side of the road. The driver of the truck locks his breaks and jumps out to see the surely destroyed rickshaw, the rickshaw and driver had been magically moved to safety. The title talks of teleportation and or an angel and the video finishes off by the superhuman walking off. When showing the video to Cat on Youtube, we saw to the side of several explanations of how it was a hoax. Personally we didn’t care if it was a hoax or not it was just really heart lifting.

 So if you have followed this blog over the years you will also note that my stories always are followed by our own personal experiences. Now I’m not going to tell you that we have seen anything quite like this but we did have to laugh about the near teleporting fly fisherman we saw on New Year’s Day. As most of our readers know, Cat and I try to stay off the river on the really crowded days. Unfortunately, after watching the first half of the Husker game, I was a little worried that my heart would not take another second half that resembled the last two years. Cat keeps telling me that even though she has had plenty of offers to take care of her, she really wants me to keep that job for quite a while. We got to Valco at just after noon and we noticed that no one was in the pumphouse hole. We headed down and across and when we looked up we saw someone had run down in the middle so no one else could fish any of the runs in that area. We headed up to the Money hole; the first half hour was productive but not great. Biggest fish to the net was a 15inch bow. The area really turned off and so we decided to move up river, when we got above Picnic Rock we could see that that area was pretty crowded so we headed back down. We really weren’t hooking anything and Cat noticed that the Pumphouse was empty again. Cat grabbed Winston and started down but stopped half way when we saw the Teleporter was back in the middle. We were just trying to enjoy the day so at that point we didn’t really realize what the person was doing. Cat moved back up by me and after fishing a few more minutes and getting the call that my Heart attack Huskers had actually won the game we decided we were ready to head home. Walking down we saw that the Pumphouse was once again empty so I told Cat I wanted to hit the run just a few casts before we took off. About the time we neared a guy came hustling off the bank and back into the run. Cat and I could not help but laugh the whole way home.

  Now for the conditions part of this blog; The River is crowded but fish can still be had. In the two hours on the water we saw a total of three midges. Three, not three hatches, bugs hatching almost always make it easier to fly fish. The key right now is to locate where the fish are and get whatever in front of their faces. Remember, this is January, enjoy your time on the river and don’t get caught up with your numbers or sizes and if you have to teleport your way into a run you’re taking yourself way too serious. Bugs of choice are Truebloods, Ninjas, J-Bombs and Roe…As always, thanks for reading, Connell, Cat, Winston and The Drift Fly Shop….