Hello all and thanks for checking in
at the O’Grady Fly Fishing Adventures. I got to work the shop Saturday
afternoon and it was really interesting to hear the fishing reports from the day.
One person would come in and they couldn’t believe how awesome the fishing was
and the next person wanted to know where all the fish had gone. I tried my best
to ease the hurt feelings and smiled with all the gloating. I wanted to use this
post to give my own little report of our river. First of all, I want to start
by saying this has been one of the most enjoyable January’s I can ever
remember. Our water temps have been stable at just below 40 degrees and weather
for the most part has been perfect. Fish eating times have been a little hard
to predict, but they have definitely been eating.
Today I made my way to the river and
met up with Richie. I started in a run that fished really well last week and on
the second cast I hooked and lost a good fish. I figured I was way smarter than
the fish but they proved me wrong, the next twenty minutes I managed to wrangle
in one ten incher. I made my way down to meet up with Rich and he told me he
had only caught dinks but was thrilled after the poor day he had yesterday. I
jumped in next to him and after a few casts, I landed a beautiful 19 incher. I
felt a little bad about catching a fish out of his run but I got over it(hehe).
We made our way down into another run and after a few casts I heard Rich say “Yes!”
and I watched a horse do a quick tail walk. The fish popped off and a few casts
more he was laughing again. That fish went foul but after a few more casts he
landed one of the prettiest twenty inchers I had seen in a while. I got across
the river to take the pic and when I got home and looked at the picture, it was
pretty clear that Winston wasn’t very happy about the fish being caught on the
opposite side of the river. I managed to land one more nice fish and it made
Pooh-dogs day. We made our way back up river and I didn’t bump another fish.
Once again, the river fished well in quick windows and the fish just disappeared
at other times. Fish today were taken on the New Moon, FOD, and even a grey RS’2
but as you can see by the variety, it was right time/ right place and not necessarily
the fly.
I’m guessing that the next three
weeks ought to fish very similar to today so if you get a chance to get out
find a friend and make it a day. Don’t take the catching so serious and enjoy
being in the river, there are a lot of worse things you could be doing. On a
personal note, I will be away from my keyboard for a few weeks and hopefully
when I open it back up, I have some great stories for you all. As always,
Connell, Cat, Winston, Richie and The Drift Fly Shop want to thank you for
reading….
Check out Winston pouting...
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