Quick Trip

[Murdoc]

Took a quick trip down to see Tim today and decited to go on down a fish a little. The river flow looks great. Haven't seen the river in such great shape this time of year in many years. The river was a little cloudy because of the river work but you could still sight fish pretty well. It was a muggy hot couple hours. Caught several fish. Nothing very big. Took my mini fly rod and it worked me over trying to get to some of the fish on the other side of the river. The river looked like it's been fished pretty hard. Not a lot of fish down below in the fly area but you can find some pockets with some fish. Sweat a pound and caught some fish. I'll take it!!!

[laker67]

Glad to hear you got out Murdoc!

By mini fly rod, are you talking about a six footer or less?

I still have one of those for the old days at Bennett, also two seven footers that i still play with occasionally.

[catman]

Murdoc, I didn't see ya today..I was at the very end of course drying them...

[Murdoc]

My mini is a 5 foot 3 wt 2 piece and a lot of fun. Sevier came out with a 6 foot 4 piece 2 wt this year. Perfect for bikes and back packing. I didn't mention that it was a costly trip for me. A truck flipped a rock up and now I've got the north star in my windshield about 2inchs across. I only stayed an hour and a half. Catman, I was wondering if you might be around. I made it to the riffles above the dam pool about 5. Sorry to miss you! How were the drys doing?? I did see the ranger for the first time looking around the dam hole. I saw several people fishing with rubber curly tails!! Saw a jar of power bait on the bank also. I bet they could write 50 tickets a day if they would. Laker67, it was still good to get out and wet the line!!

[laker67]

My mini is a 5 foot 3 wt 2 piece and a lot of fun. Sevier came out with a 6 foot 4 piece 2 wt this year. Perfect for bikes and back packing. I didn't mention that it was a costly trip for me. A truck flipped a rock up and now I've got the north star in my windshield about 2inchs across. I only stayed an hour and a half. Catman, I was wondering if you might be around. I made it to the riffles above the dam pool about 5. Sorry to miss you! How were the drys doing?? I did see the ranger for the first time looking around the dam hole. I saw several people fishing with rubber curly tails!! Saw a jar of power bait on the bank also. I bet they could write 50 tickets a day if they would. Laker67, it was still good to get out and wet the line!!

Sorry to hear about the windshield. Makes me want to chase the person down when it happens, of course I never do. I did not realize that your "mini" was a custom order rod. I thought that you were referring to the older, like myself, style of park rod used back in the late 60's & 70's. I have, and still use occasionally, a Berkley Para/Metric six footer,and two Lake King graphite seven footers,all are 2-piece and 5 wt. Thanks for the report at Roaring! I caught one good brown at T-como on Thursday, and three border- line fish.

Take care Murdoc!