Night Fishin'

[JobyKSU]

I made it up last night - left Fayetteville while they were running 3 generators 'just in case'

As I got closer to the tailwater, I called to check on generation every 5 minutes - started getting ansy as 3 were still turned on. I crossed the dam at Midnight:02, placed the phone call and sure 'nuff, zero generators!

When I got on the water, I began throwing #2 white bunny. I had a lot of hard hits, but nothing was taking enough to set a hook. I started picking up lots of fish on a #6 (or 8) olive matuka.

Largest fish of the night was a 19" brown. This fish confused me to no end, because after I removed the hook, he tried to swim off but was still caught. I finally figured out it wasn't my streamer he was hooked on when it became firmly implanted in my thumb. It turns out the poor guy had been foul hooked on a small grey fuzzy scud and the broken line had wrapped around my reel seat. Once I figured that out, I clipped about 2 feet of tippet off of his fin and sent him on his merry way.

All in all it was a pretty good night. I got to break in my new 8wt (casts like a dream, once I got used to the faster action) and I didn't go swimming.