Breakfast Meeting

[mikenewman]

This morning had a curiously dead feel to it. Usually when setting up the boat in the half light you can hear the occasional splash of feeding fish but not today.
Spent the first hour pitching into my favorite riprap/tullie pockets -nothing! Nothing moving. Nothing biting. Nothing doing.
Decided to cross the slough to a promising looking tullie bank that I hadn't yet tried. Third pitch up along side a point brought a great fat bulge in the water that signalled the big diver had been inhaled with a lazy confidence. She showed her flank on the hook set - omigawd!!!
This was a fish that was obviously used to having her own way, so I gave her a lot of stick and reckon I had her out of the thick stuff before she knew what was happening.
I was convinced she was a double from the time I stuck her to the time I read the boga scale at 8lbs dead. 8 lbs of green, gleaming, fabulous wildness.
Absolute joy

[Katz]

NICE!!

Kraig

[Hairstacker]

Awesome Mike!! I'll bet that first glance sent your heart racing, eh? What fly did you get her on? That is too cool!!

[David Lee]

8 Lbs. , eh ??

I'll put money on you breaking that record later this fall

Very well done !

David =D>

[k.hanley]

Sweet! Nice going Mike.
Cheers, Ken

[Charlie Gonzales]

Very nice Mike. Must have been the pike fly?

[JerryInLodi]

Mike, I was listening to one of the pro bass hardware chuckers making some predictions for the fall delta on the radio last week. While he expected the overall bite to slow dramatically, he also predicted some of the biggest fish of the season would be caught if a string of four or more days with similar weather could be put together.

It appears that he was dead on. Like you, my catch rate has really slowed in the morning until the sun warms the water a couple of degrees. Unlike you, I haven't stuck, "The BIG ONE yet!"

Totally awesome! From the looks of the fish, if pumped up with roe or milt, probably would have busted ten pounds in the spring!

[nightgoat]

well done Mike! That's a beauty

Hey Mike,

Awesome fish ! Jerry told me there are some really big ones out there when we fished together recently and yours definitely proved that.

Bill

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I want one too......I guess you just have to keep going?

8 pounds of LMB is a lot, especially on a fly rod.