I Feel Lucky! (It's Not Every Day You Get To Fish In A Two Hour Long Sucker Hole).

 

Woke at 3:30 this morning and looked out at wind and rain. Arose at 7:00 and it was still windy and rainy. By noon the yard was covered with leaves and the rain and wind continued unabated. Am surprised at how little the streams have come up so far. The River Master dropped the flow from over 1,000cfs to 525 in anticipation of the rain and today cut the release back to a mere 200cfs so it looks like more rain is in the works. Unable to work outside and unable to clean out the stove, (I need the heat), I was bored enough by 2:00 to take a drive. Had little hope of being able to fish but the UEB has places where you can get out of the wind, so that's where I went. With the wind and rain you couldn't see rises on the EB even if the were any, but in some of the quiet pools on the UEB I was given assurance that the trip was indeed a folly. Turned around at the Corbett bridge and headed back.

Was surprised on the return trip when the sun came through a sucker hole in the clouds and I had to put my polaroid's on. The squeak of the wipers told me the rain had stopped and I noticed that there were no longer leaves blowing across the road. Drove over to the WB, and without even looking to see if there were any other anglers, (few, if any, are as crazy as I am, never saw one all day), put on the gear and had at 'em. 

The fishing - There was no rain, no wind, no iso's, but there were olives and rising fish. It wasn't yesterday, (your best day of the year only happens once), but it was dry fly fishing that I would gladly drive the hour and a half from my house to do every day, (if I had to). I was in a slow water pool where the fish could look things over, and got refused several times. There were almost all adult fish that know the game, (caught but one 11 incher). From 3:30 until 5:15, I hooked ten of them, one just came unstuck, lost both fly and fish on a spinout, and lost one that got into the weeds when I tried to answer a phone call from some guy who wanted to tell me what a great day he had deer hunting. Landed four rainbows all within a quarter of an inch of 16, a couple of nice two year olds and the aforesaid 11 inch rainbow. 

Got in the car as the rain started up and battled the wind on the way back to the Lordville Estate.

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