A short TR

We've got some sort of pre-spring thing springing out all over
hereabouts, and I can't stay off the river. Temps in the high 40s,
hallelujah. A person can walk along the river trail without icy stilts
growing from the bottom of his boots.

The fishing itself was something of a comedy of errors. A sporadic mix
of caddis in a wide range of sizes (10 to 18) and colors (orange, tan,
brown and dark grey). A few BWOs too. Yet whatever I cast to a rise
form turned out to be in almost every case the wrong choice. And the
few fish I *didn't* put down I either missed on the rise or lost after
the briefest of hook-ups.

In the end, I had to resort to high-sticking a HEAVY tbh prince in the
top of a plunge pool to fool the one fish willing to be landed.

http://tinyurl.com/apqfb

JR

"JR" wrote in message ...
We've got some sort of pre-spring thing springing out all over
hereabouts, and I can't stay off the river. Temps in the high 40s,
hallelujah. A person can walk along the river trail without icy stilts
growing from the bottom of his boots.

The fishing itself was something of a comedy of errors. A sporadic mix
of caddis in a wide range of sizes (10 to 18) and colors (orange, tan,
brown and dark grey). A few BWOs too. Yet whatever I cast to a rise
form turned out to be in almost every case the wrong choice. And the
few fish I *didn't* put down I either missed on the rise or lost after
the briefest of hook-ups.

In the end, I had to resort to high-sticking a HEAVY tbh prince in the
top of a plunge pool to fool the one fish willing to be landed.

http://tinyurl.com/apqfb




I am so very jealous of the folks that are able to fish nearby waters this
time of the year.

Great looking fish.

Dan

JR

"JR" wrote


We've got some sort of pre-spring thing springing out all over
hereabouts, and I can't stay off the river. Temps in the high 40s,


we've hit the 70s here the last couple days But, I went down to the river
to look and it's still running WAY above any level that I feel seems
fishable. "Maybe" they will lower flows soon, but I'm not holding my
breath. If it stays still nice till Monday, I'm fishing somewhere, damnit
!! But I avoid going out on the weekends, if possible.

Down side to the lovely weather? I just drank a Coke while sitting on the
deck ... in the short time it took to consume it I could see our weeds grow
3 inches !!! Lawn mower comes out soon, actually it's past due but,
sunshine or not, the grass/ground is still very wet, standing in water many
places.

Enjoy yourself JR, you're reports inspire the rest of us

JR wrote:

We've got some sort of pre-spring thing springing out all over
hereabouts, and I can't stay off the river. Temps in the high 40s,
hallelujah. A person can walk along the river trail without icy stilts
growing from the bottom of his boots.

The fishing itself was something of a comedy of errors. A sporadic mix
of caddis in a wide range of sizes (10 to 18) and colors (orange, tan,
brown and dark grey). A few BWOs too. Yet whatever I cast to a rise
form turned out to be in almost every case the wrong choice. And the
few fish I *didn't* put down I either missed on the rise or lost after
the briefest of hook-ups.

In the end, I had to resort to high-sticking a HEAVY tbh prince in the
top of a plunge pool to fool the one fish willing to be landed.

http://tinyurl.com/apqfb

JR

"Daniel-San" wrote in message
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"JR" wrote in message
...
We've got some sort of pre-spring thing springing out all over
hereabouts, and I can't stay off the river. Temps in the high 40s,
hallelujah. A person can walk along the river trail without icy stilts
growing from the bottom of his boots.

The fishing itself was something of a comedy of errors. A sporadic mix
of caddis in a wide range of sizes (10 to 18) and colors (orange, tan,
brown and dark grey). A few BWOs too. Yet whatever I cast to a rise
form turned out to be in almost every case the wrong choice. And the
few fish I *didn't* put down I either missed on the rise or lost after
the briefest of hook-ups.

In the end, I had to resort to high-sticking a HEAVY tbh prince in the
top of a plunge pool to fool the one fish willing to be landed.

http://tinyurl.com/apqfb




I am so very jealous of the folks that are able to fish nearby waters this
time of the year.

Great looking fish.

Dan

JR

Let me guess, you're not in New York city, DC or Bal'more?
Frank Reid
(who spent 5 1/2 shoveling and using the snow blower yesterday. Well,
an hour and a half was spent extracating my neighbor's Sunday comics
from said snowblower. Why is it that we can't get a friggen snow plow
down the street but the damn paperboy can sew anti-snowblower mines?)