Using my best fishing tool
I fished for smallmouth yesterday with Scuba Tim who had come up from Indianna. For the first several hours we averaged about one third of a fish per man hour if you count my four inch creek chub. Then while answering a call of nature I stopped to think instead of randomly casting flies at the problem. I returned to the river with the heaviest fly I had and refished a good looking hole that we had just gone through with no results. I caught two bass out of that hole and two more in the final half hour before we reached the point where we got out of the river. I have to remind myself once again that thinking will catch more fish than any other tool I have. What really hurts is that I had the same pattern on quite early and lost that fly to a tree before it had much chance to produce results.
