Kissing Your Sister.....

            Hello all and thanks for checking in at the O’Grady Fly Fishing Adventures. Well if your favorite college football team plays in the SEC and you read the title and are hoping for a little soft porn, then you will be a little disappointed. When most of us hear the “kissing your sister” saying, it makes us just a little uncomfortable. For me, todays trip to the river fit the saying perfectly.

            The river came back down under 400cfs yesterday morning and after giving it a day to settle, I wanted to check out todays conditions. Even with the lower flows, the river has a green tint to it and has about a foot of visibility. After the last two and a half months of sight fishing to spooky trout, and seeing todays tint, it was a little difficult getting really excited. I stepped into the first run and after several drifts, the indicator shot up river. It was a quick battle and I managed a fifteen incher to the net, it wasn’t sight fishing but it was…..well liking kissing your sister. Anyway, I fished for the next few hours moving from run to run quickly and after hooking and losing my third fish, I decided to call it a day.

            All Spring I have been watching the mountain snowpack and the upper Ark flows and it appears to me that our Spring tail water wading window is beginning to close. Now just because one window is closing, doesn’t mean fishing is over. First off, I was talking to Cody today and he was out on the reservoir, the temps are beginning to rise and the bass are beginning to take top water flies. If you have never tried it, Billy is currently doing our res. trips and the next month should be fantastic. Secondly, our shop is now permitted to do take float trips through town. And lastly, the mid-level lakes are just beginning to turn on. We at the Drift know that fishing Wahatoya or Spinney can be a little spooky so we have a special that we run this time of the year. We are such fans of the Sage Accel and Outcast pontoon boats, that any purchase of an Accel or a Fishcat/Outcast pontoon boat gets a free sit down with Cat or I and we will go over tactics, safety, accessories, fly selection and all we can to make your trip to the lakes wonderful.

            Now to finish, I wanted to wish all the mothers out there a spectacular Mother’s Day. As always, Connell, Cat, Winston, Barbara O’Grady and the Drift Fly Shop want to thank you for reading….