That's a great winter there. Any skwalas out and about on the rivers up there yet, or still a bit early? I got into the first decent skwala action I have had in two years here today. What a fun hatch when you actually hit it right.
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That's a great winter there. Any skwalas out and about on the rivers up there yet, or still a bit early? I got into the first decent skwala action I have had in two years here today. What a fun hatch when you actually hit it right.
Yes I saw it on the FOTW thread you did a while ago. I am sure it would work great. I will have to tie a few up and give them a go. Skwalas here can be such a hit or miss hatch that I have a hard time stocking my box with good patterns for them. I always forget to tie a few up when I am doing my winter tying then all of a sudden I am on the river in the spring and see them crawling around and end up having to scrounge around the fly box trying to find an appropriate pattern. I think i ended up using a store bought fly today for the first time since I can remember.
John, great pics on beautiful water. Is old rubber legs your own making and are you willing to share the recipe?
John you truly are my fishing hero !
Keep it up as long as you can but be careful out there. Speaking of which, what are you wearing for footwear when it's icy out ?
Rich
Nice fishies, John. Remind me to take my camera on Thursday, maybe I will show you what is swimming around the icy water down here.
Left thumb? I will have you know my photos are all works of art!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...003_1a_2lc.jpg
Okay, first of all, I have to state that it was not icy this morning. In fact, it was in the low 40s when we left at 5 am for the river, and 42 when we got there. I could see snow in the mountains, though.
Imagine it looked like this (although it didn't, but this is the same place)...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1000668_lc.jpg
Second fish of the day was a ratty male brown still scarred up from the recent spawning... and barely light enough to see to cast.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...P1020096lc.jpg
While we dredged most of the morning with woolly bugger and a glo bug, I did give up and streamer fish after the rain stopped, and ran into several fish like this...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...P1020100lc.jpg
and this...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...P1020101lc.jpg
and even a couple of these...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...P1020103lc.jpg.
Hard to take those left thumb pics with a lot of these fish, since they are kind of wiggly and I don't want to squeeze...
Thirty-odd fish today, a dozen of them browns in the 16-20 range and two cutts like the one in the pic, the rest smaller browns and rainbows. My partner did well as well.
Morning John...just a note of thanks for your posts. I never fail to access you at least once a day...you might say I am fanatical.
Bernie
Actually I do have an idea. Most cameras are made to be operated with the right hand, since most people are right-handed. People get used to (develop muscle memory) doing things a certain way. In addition, if you arent left-handed, then that has to be added into the mix of factors. I appreciate the extra effort, even if the trout(s) didn't.
Please be aware that I in no way intended to imply that I had found any fault with your left thumb, but we have seen rather a lot of it over the years. :)
Warm regards,
Ed