Spinner Falls Are Oftentimes Well Worth Waiting For.

 My plan today was simple, fish the Hendricksons above Hale Eddy on the WB this afternoon, and try to find a spinner fall of some kind on the WB this evening. So what did I do this morning? Tied some March Brown emergers that I had success with the past week, (until I tried them on fish that had already eaten one with a hook in it). With the weatherman changing the forecast  pictures of cloudy rainy days to bright sunny, (but cooler), ones, I left the grass cutting for another day and went fishing.

Arrived in  Deposit about 1:00 to pick up my new fly line, only to find the someone???? must have sold it. Chatted with river friend Bill, (his dog was in the truck), who offered me one of his Cortland DT4 weights. Was on the river by 1:30, (didn't know that the hot water spill had ceased this morning, thus postponing the hatch until 3:00). First Hendrickson blew by me just five minutes before Mike the Cop arrived. It was a modest hatch the flies popped quickly off the water, the fish were unimpressed, never saw a Hendrickson eaten, splashes made by the fish were sorta like my salutes to rude rowers outlined in an earlier offering.  By 3:45 I had accumulated a total of four refusals. Reeled it in and left. 

After driving over to the BK on a fools errand that we are not going to talk about, I filled the gas tank and drove up, down, and around the WB, pondering my options. At about 6:00 I selected a spot to fish the spinner fall. To my surprise there was one, and there were fish eating them, (them being caddis). Picked up several from the water, matched them with one of mine and got one nose bump and dozens of  ignores. Changed to a rusty spinner, (actually several of different sizes and colors), and the lights came on, the first three fish I cast at ate and were landed, then it became more difficult. The fish had been fished to, and were fussy about what they ate. Ended up getting four more to eat. Landed all seven fish that I hooked, (a 10 inch brown and six very nice rainbows). Got in the car at 9:01.  

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