Clavemeister's Penn's Report-Pt.1

(Tom Littleton) wrote in message

Well, the Penn's Clave has come around again, and Saturday found me en route to
Coburn under beautiful weather! I arrived in town, went to Jonas' shop and
encountered Frank Reid, who regaled me with horror stories of his drive up. He
was in the shop for a wader upgrade, new wading shoes, etc, and had simply
lobbed his wallet into the shop and asked Jonas to empty it.

I think he was the last one to stop into Joans shop too. If you're
looking for frank just head to Jonas'

Penn's was at a near-perfect level,

It was perfect..


Walt...stories. He was grinning ear to ear, though, so I chose to
believe him (the fish was 19 inches when he left Coburn, and I see
it put on 4 inches in less than a week.

Too bad he didn't catch it in Mike's Rung

As they left town, Bill Claspy and I set off upstream in search of
Makela and the Swede, Roger..... Makela foul-hooked a couple
decent browns, and may have fairly landed a couple more fishing stonefly
nymphs.

Go figure those fish thought they could throw the hook and get
away..never...


The evening again provided a concentrated bug parade, consisting of the
following:
March Brown, duns and spinners; Grey Fox duns and spinners; Sulfur duns and
spinners, Tan Caddis and a Dark Olive Caddis.

And at least a hundred other unames varities. I'll never forget those
great evening hatches where at nightfall there were hundreds of Dark
Caddis (some green, some brown, some black) crawling all over our
necks faces, hand, arms, while March brown, Grey Fox,and Sulfurs hit
us in during their decents. Countless Mayfly Duns emerging at the
same time and fish that were all keying on a different f;y from the
next.

folks returned as well, happy,but fishless. Toward the end of the evening,
Vince turned to me and stated,"there is no more than a 20% chance of rain the
whole rest of the week. It's going to dry and perfect weather!". Thus, was the
jinx placed on us......

I think it did rain about 20% of the time after that, but it was well
needed.

to be continued,
Tom

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