I Feel Lucky.

 Tried a triple header today and am not likely to try one again. Morning trip was to the EB in town. It proved to be just as barren of bugs and rising fish as was the trip to the top of the EB last night. 

Came back to the fishing camp, had lunch, and fell asleep in the recliner making me an hour late for the afternoon shift which took place on the WB just upstream from where I fished yesterday. Fished 3:00  to 5:00 but all but one of the fish were caught in the first hour. As was the case yesterday, there were modest hatches of caddis, Invaria and Hendricksons and as is the case almost always, the fish preferred the Hendricksons.

Ate my second sandwich in the car and rested a bit before heading out for the nightcap at 6:30. Found Invaria on the water in sufficient quantities to justify a bit of feeding, but the trout felt otherwise. Caught two fish blind casting an Invaria emerger and when the bugs stopped hatching, I left. Drove downstream and spent the last 30 minutes in a pool where there were Invaria, olives, blue sedge and some rising fish. Suffered half a dozen refusals and hooked and landed one nice rainbow.

The day was otherwise filled with wildlife. Saw eagles at all but the last stop. Watched a doe walk along the bank and stop, bump her fawn with her nose and nurse it when it stood up. When the fawn finished it laid down and mom walked back along the bank on the same path she came in on.  Just as I arrived at the last spot, a bear ran across the road and up the hill away from the river. On the way home I stopped for a young fox that was in the road uncertain which way to go, mom was crouched down in the roadside ditch.  

BTW- EB went over 70 today at Hancock, (the USGS removed the temperature gage at Fish's Eddy), and with the next ten days predicted to be even warmer, it would be a good idea for everyone to concentrate their efforts on the tailwaters and the BR down to Buckingham. 

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