7/14/08 Dead Drifter

[Brian Sloss]

Some of you who have been to my shop may recognize Brenda. She has been our right hand along with her husband Joe. She may have taken your reservation or been working the register when you came in. Anyway, she has been wanting to fish for a while now so I took her out in the drift boat for a day of fun and fishing on Monday. She was not comfortable with the idea of fly fishing so she used a panther martin, single hook as we hit the trophy area while I fly fished. We caught the heck out of the fish. Getting deep was key and Golden stones and Don's Crawdad did well. They were in deep water coming into and out of shoals. After Brenda lost her second panther martin, I finally convinced her to try the fly. At little Hurricane shoal, I worked with her a little on her cast and she landed her first trout on a fly. It hit the golden stone on the swing. I was so proud of her, I decided she earned the right to get her photo in front the ODDS sticker on the boat.

[superfly]

WOW! That is exciting first trout on a fly rod. Congrats Brenda!

[vandelay]

All right Brenda! That is a great story and she is always extremely friendly and fun to talk to at the shop.

[Brian Sloss]

Vandelay,

You better watch out - a couple of more "lesson trips" and Brenda will be out-fishing you! You need to get down and knock the dust off of your fly rod.

Ryan

[vandelay]

No doubt about it Cat! Yes, I planned on coming down next weekend, but that changed when I broke my left foot last weekend. I don't think Griff even knows about it yet. SO, I'm probably looking at Aug 9 or Aug 23 as weekends to head down to God's country.