It's A Great Day To Be Alive - - Why Can't Every Day Be Just This Good?

 

Arrived at the Lordville Estate right at noon today with plans to fish the afternoon sulfurs, it didn't happen. Spent yesterday afternoon reconstructing the dams and repairing the plumbing that feeds water into the trout and bass ponds in Lafayette. Yesterday the bass pond feeder was dry, the trout pond feeder was a mere trickle. Sometime since last Sunday when I mowed around both ponds and both inlets were working there was a thunderstorm/flash flood that blew out both dams, filled the collection pools with stones and gravel, cut off the water supplies to both ponds, and cut new channels into rainbow creek. The repairs wouldn't have been that big a deal twenty years ago but they were yesterday. Just didn't have the energy to fish this afternoon.

Left about 6:00 anxious to make up for lost time. Drove up to Deposit, turned left and went as far as the Men's club. Saw but two splashy risers, Cedar Wax Wings over the water, sulfurs, and no fishermen. Left town and headed downstream where I fished an evening sulfur hatch last week, and Dennis had fish feeding on hookless sulfurs this past weekend. Both the bugs and fish were there.

The fishing - Everything you could ask for, the right amount of bugs, rising fish, no other anglers, and no boats in sight.

How'd I do? Certainly not as good as I did last week, and not as good as I wanted to. Caught a fish before the bugs and fish got really going. Cast for over an hour, with each cast aimed at a rising fish, two of which have been sent to an optician for glasses. The rest of the feeding fish never so much as made the water quiver under the fly. Late, when it got cold, and the hatch waned, the spinners made their appearance. Saw a three fish rise, put on a spinner and got a refusal, a take where the hook just came out without catching on anything, and a hookup from a nice fish.

If Hackelhouse  wants to do the math again, it was four fish totaling 66 inches, but there were rising fish to throw at all night, which made it, as DRC likes to say, a great day to be on the water.

Paul H. -  Thanks for your post, I'll get David to add it to the report tomorrow.

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