Hats coming in

Oh yeah baby!  Theyre here!  I fished on Sunday and they were coming off.  The only problem was the lack of heads coming up to greet them.  That should change this week, and Ill be looking to prove it on Monday evening, my next chance to go out.

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Made it out on Friday and it was great!

I hit my favorite stretch of the South Branch on Friday.  The sun was shining in and out of the clouds, the weather was warm and the fishing was great.

I thought that there might be Hendricksons, but no such luck.  There were Blue Quills and Grannom Caddis out.  The caddis were everywhere.

The only unfortunate thing was that I left my butt pack (and all my flies and leaders) at home on the floor of my garage.

I did happen to have two EHCs on my lanyard though, so all was not lost.  Those two flies scored me 4 brookies, 4 browns and a rainbow-all wild.

My pants were sagging though, as with every backcast, I thought Id be donating to the tree Gods.  Somehow, all my casts landed true and I came home with the same two flies.

Spring just rocks!  I wish I was out there today!

 

The Musky on Saturday

I was able to get out for a few hours on the Musky Saturday morning.  After three trips to the South Branch where I turned a few heads and had to settle for suckers, not trout, I needed a good day.

I got it. in the form of stocked rainbows.  The fish were hungry and cooperating.  I fished a jig head hares ear and a San Juan trailer.  The stockies almost all took the worm.  The final count was two on the hairs ear and over 10 on the worm.

I got home by noon and spent the rest of the day in the yard, with the family, doing chores.

Central Chapter of TU was out doing the Musky clean up and made me feel guilty, but I had a buddy out with me who recently had back surgery and need his fix of trout fishing.  I only felt guilty for a short period of time.