Well, it feels like October, anyway. 50 degrees, sunny, and a little
breezy, and a new rod burning a hole in my closet combined to make a
necessity for fishing today. However, the trip was more of a walk along
the river than anything, but it's not often us New England folk get a
chance for that in January.

I cast a little, mostly with buggers and streamers, but found little
(size 20 or so) dark green nymphs (yeah, that's as scientific as I get)
flourishing around the stones. I tied a few matching patterns on, but
had as much success with those as the buggers and streamers. Mainly I
wanted to check out the performance of my new Sage DS 485-4 and was
quite pleased. It cast the buggers with ease and made good presentation
with the small stuff. I think I'll like this rod.

I ran into no one else on the portion of the river I fished, and it was
a pleasure just to be out on it again. Happy 2005, roffdom.
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TL,
Tim
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