Update: fish head's fishing report.
Fish head got skunked.
But, that's OK because Scout and I had a funtastic day on the river. I spent more time dinking around and playing with my dog than I fished. Scout got to go swimming in the river and he also went mousing in the meadows (he didn't catch one but he sure had fun trying).
The rod is incredibley nice. It cast so smooth and effortlessly it's now my favorite dink rod. The only shortcoming is that will only roll cast a limited distance. Other than that it's oh so nice.
I wanted to see if I could get a fish to rise to a dry. No luck there. During the entire day I had only seen one fish rise and I stayed until the sun went over the mountains. There was a great hatch going on with BWO's, small cream colored midges and I even saw one rusty drake. Nada fish were rising though. It was the first time I had fished that section of river so I don't know if it was a lack of fish or what. I could see that the river had been rising and falling with all the thunderstorms we've been having lately. ??? I should have tied on a dropper but I never took the time to do it.
In my excitement to go fishing I left my hip boots that I had laid out in the garage. No biggie, it was just like the old days wading in tennis shoes and Levis'. I did manage to forget the change of clothes I had also set out so it was a wet ride back home.
All in all is was a great day. Catching fish isn't always the most important thing.
