Hello
friends and thanks for checking in at the O’Grady Fly Fishing Adventures. If
you ask almost any fly shop employee what the most difficult part of working in
a fly shop is, without question, it will be the over exaggerated fish stories.
Now I’m sure our readers will think, isn’t that how you get so many readers. Yes,
emphatically! I tell a lot of stories, but I promise most of them are true, I
mean even Fargo claims to be completely true. Today's story happened in South
Park Colorado, and in respect of the fish, will be told exactly as it happened.
With the river season nearing its
end, Cat and I wanted to do some lazy man fishing and decided to hit Spinney.
This was our first trip this year and really had no idea what to expect. We got
to the water at around 8:30 and after about twenty minutes I got my first take.
I was late on the set and hoped that I didn’t screw up my only take of the day.
I re-casted and just as my flies were sinking, I could almost hear them go
tick-tick-tick and them BOOM. The next five hours was unbelievable, I would
cast, count it down, and just as the indicator stood up..Boom! I don’t normally
keep a count but the first several hours definitely would fall into the “crap
load” number. At around 1:00, Cat headed in to use the restroom and, being the
all loving husband that I am, I decided I would count how many I caught while
she was out of the water. As she began to paddle out I was at five. I continued
to count until we left and I finished at twenty, plus the crap load from
earlier. I’m guessing most of our readers think that every time we fish we have
days like this but it just isn’t true. We have had a lot of really great days
on lakes but the size and number of fish that were landed today by far put it
in the best “lake” day ever. Cat had a slight gear error today and had to work
a little harder than I did, but estimated at least thirty fish to the net. The
majority of the fish today were in the 18 to 22 inch size plus half a dozen
under 14 and another half a dozen in the 24 to 25 range. Unfortunately, the
selfie pics just don’t do these fish justice. Trying to hold one of those big
piggies with one hand and the camera with the other just doesn’t work. Anyway,
in a couple of the pics you can see me fighting a fish and Cat is doubled up in
the background.
With the river beginning to move
into runoff stage, this is the perfect time to get this lake thing figured out.
Spinney is near and unbelievably healthy. We at the Drift know how trying
something new can be intimidating so we are continuing to run our lake special.
With the purchase of a Sage Accel fly rod or any Fishcat/Outcast pontoon boat,
you will receive a free sit down with either Cat or I and we will go over
rigging, fly selection, accessories, safety and lastly how to attack a lake.
The fish are there and ready to get caught. As always, Connell, Cat, Winston,
Hanzee and the Drift Fly Shop want to thank you for reading……
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