5/23/07 report

[Brian Sloss]

I took a couple of St. Louis gentlemen, Gene and Jim, out for a guide trip between Turner and Whitten. Wonderful couple of guys to kill a day with. Though the day started out a little slow, it ended fine. We had a couple of hook ups early in the day, but they were not landed. Jim had a nice fight at tumbling shoals, but again it was lost. After lunch it looked as if it might rain and it did for about 5 minutes on other parts of the river, but not ours. Anyway, the fish seemd to perk up after that threat and we even had a couple double hook ups, though we never landed both (just one fish landed with each double). Gene caught a chunky 15-16 incher and that was the fish of the day. Though we didn't light the world on fire, fish were stung and a good time was had by all. By the way, we threw the whole fly box at them with no distinct pattern rising to the top until the end of the day when eggs dropped off a stonefly fished deep started to produce.