Paybacks are fun
Last Friday evening I tried a pool on the upper EB in 150cfs. There were large sulfurs and feeding fish. I caught one fish and got one nose bump refusal. The rest of my casts were ignored. Today with the water up to 250cfs I decided to try to get even. I arrived at about 5:00pm , the sulfurs were hatching and the fish were feeding. My very first cast was inhaled by a brown that was eating every dun that came his way. My second cast also found an open mouth. The third rising fish I threw at came right up to the fly, opened his mouth and did a back flip at the last instant to avoid eating it. Thereafter things settled down into a fairly even match of takes, refusals and ignores. The sulfurs kept coming, not heavy but enough to keep the fish feeding. Good casts got a response. Bad casts put fish down. An adult bald eagle lit in a tree behind me, perhaps to critique my casting which was at times awful - (did you ever hook an apple on your back cast and on the f...