I met up with a friend last week at the mid. He is a novice fly fisher with minimum casting skills. I figured an indicator rig might be easier to hook up with a fish than throwing a sinking line 70 or more feet to have a chance. He did his best to get the indo rig out 30 feet. By the time the wind came up he was lucky to have a pile of floating line above his wading boots. Bless his heart, his attitude was the best. Seeing everyone around him cast their lines next to him by a magnitude, he didnÂ’t give up. He practiced, knowing he wasnÂ’t going to catch anything unless he got the rig out further. I want to end the story by saying by the end of the day he caught ten fish by throwing the rig 60 feet. Truth be told he did catch two fish. He managed to cast to the edge of the drop off. I was, as a friend, pretty proud he persevered all day without a whiff of a dunking indicator. The last half hour with low light the fish came in to the edge of the drop off ten feet from the nubie fly fisher. Sometimes the fish cooper
Today was a slow catching day little to no wind, sunny and fairly flat water. Oh and just a couple days past a full moon. Excuses excuses I did see many fishers come and go without a fish. Because so many came and went I kept thinking I should go check out some other beaches too. The little experience I have on this lake told me to keep my fly in this water. The fish will come by. Last week I brought three to hand but my fly was not in the water much. I was playing guide. Now by myself the fly lived in the lake. Good thing because I did manage to catch my big one so far this year. It scaled at 13 lbs. My for real fly fishing guru friend got two over 15 lbs. We both managed 4 to hand with another 3-4 lost grabs. Between my friend and I, a black leech stripped caught the most, followed by a brown/green balanced leech, popcorn beetle and lastly one on a blood midge.
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