Tough Conditions Good Fishing

[John Berry]

Yesterday it rained all morning. Around noon, it cleared up and the sun came out. My wife, Lori, my yellow lab, Ellie, and I headed for the river. After we had been there for an hour, the wind started blowing ferociously (15 to 25 mph), rain began coming down in sheets, and the temperature dropped twenty degrees. We had on good gear so we just hunkered down and continued on. Ellie didn't know the differance. We caught plenty of fish including some really fat chunky rainbows. Lori landed a fat and sassy twenty incher. I caught two eighteen inchers back to back. The hot fly was a size sixteen olive scud.