It's Fun Chasing Rainbows When You Don't Even Get Wet.

 Surprised myself by clearing all of the hurdles back home by 11:05, which left me plenty of time to get down to Deposit for the 2:00 pm Invaria extravaganza. Even had time to talk with David, Anthony, Bob, and Mike the Cop at the Troutfitter before heading out to fish. After telling everybody where and when to go in Wednesday's report, I went in the opposite direction, not because it was bad info, I just don't like crowds,

Got to the river a little before the Invarias and managed to hook one nice rainbow before the hatch. It was partly cloudy, when the sun came out the bugs hatched, when the sun went behind the clouds, the fish fed. Sometimes it was quiet, sometimes there were fish feeding on bugs everywhere. Had a lot of ignores and refusals by feeding fish, but enough ate the fly to make it a good afternoon.

Shortly after I arrived another fisherman came upstream and fished the pool below me, he looked familiar but I wasn't sure, hollered is that you Mike and when he didn't answer I knew it was Mike the Cop sans his fedora, he is at least as hard of hearing as I am.  The hatch and the fish both shut down before 5:00 and I headed for the Lordville Estate to put the groceries away. About 6:30 a heavy downpour hit downtown Lordville, checked the radar and saw that it would soon be over but that there were a number of little but intense storms in the area. Decided to fish the home pool just in case.

The water is at about 1,100 cfs and you can see what the ice did last winter. It's like I never fished the pool before. There were a few olives and Cahill's hatching and next to no fish rising. Hooked four fish blind casting, landing two which left me one short of the coveted win for the day. Was fishing back down to the car in bugless, fishless water when a big head, dorsal fin and tail porpoised behind my fly, raised the rod and was fast to what turned out to be a genuine 20 inch rainbow. He swam to shore in my  net, lay still for the picture and swam back out to the current, again in my net. Lifted his head above the rim of the net and he swam out of the net and away. He's played this game for a long time. 

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