A Tough Few Days For The Lordville Rattlers.

 

After fishing nine straight days it was time to go home, see Jean, watch our granddaughter's lacrosse team advance in the sectional championship, wash my clothes, mow the grass, pay the bills, have lunch with an old friend, and just catch my breath.

Wednesday, the last day I fished, the sulfurs were clearly waning on the BR, the BK, and EB. Today they are gone. They can be found in Deposit in limited numbers, (along with the last of the Hendricksons). You may find green drakes and for sure coffin flies from Stockport up, on the BR. Two days away doesn't seem like much, but things are changing fast. If you don't find bugs in your "spot", get in your car and look for them, or find where the guides are fishing, (over twenty trailers at a take out), and join the fray. If you are where "It's happening" you'll be amazed by the numbers of both boats and rising fish. 

The fishing - Word from the associate editors during my absence was that there were both Hendricksons and sulfurs at the red barn, and that the fishing there was good. I fished two places on the WB today, one above the No Kill and one in the No Kill. Joined Mike the Cop at the first place and watched Mike land two fish while I suffered through three refusals and a lost yearling. Second place, (in the No Kill), during prime time, produced a few sulfurs and even fewer Hendricksons. Got refusals from all but one of the risers I saw, (lost the one that ate), but hooked four and landed two, blind casting a sulfur. By five it was over. Drove to the BE, found no bugs of any kind, but hooked four fish, landing three. Back to the car by seven, I decided to make my last stand on the BR near the fishing camp. There were a few black caddis and green drake coffin flies in the air, hooked two fish on the black caddis and one on a coffin fly, landed two of the three.

Long time readers may have noticed that except for the eagles, precious little has been said about the area wildlife. As yet, I have seen no bears or foxes, and prior to Tuesday I had seen no rattlesnakes. Tuesday there was a dead one on the road by the church in Lordville and today in the 45 minutes I was in camp between my arrival and departure to fish, another was run over not fifty feet from the first. I'm not a snake lover by any means, but I have lived with the rattlers in Lordville for thirty four years, they come out on the road to get the heat, they do not try to get out of the way of cars, they are basically docile creatures that have no intent to cause us harm. If you see one on the road give him a brake and then go around.

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