Hope to Get to Fish

[Gandolf]

Hi all,

I have been on call a lot for work, have had several "have to do" items on Saturdays, it has been pretty hot here lately, and consequently have hardly had a chance to fish in the last 2 to 3 months.

Hopefully that can get turned around and I may even try it for a few minutes this evening. I have seen quite a few quite small medium ginger winged ants in our small above ground pool, and may tie a couple or three up and try them this evening.

Hopefully you all are getting out more often than I am.

Regards,

Gandolf

[MontanaMoose]

I hope you got out yesterday evening and are heading out today too. I go fairly often but lately the 'Saturday have to do's' are taking over and they run into Sunday. I free myself up at least twice a week though and it's amazing how just a few hours on stream or lake can refresh me and somehow make me anxious to get back to my chores.

Luck !

MontanaMoose

[raiderhunter]

Gandolf,

Where were you thinking of going? We still need to try and get together.

[Gandolf]

Hi Raiderhunter,

I had hoped to go out to the stilling basin at Meridith, but it didn't work out for me to go.

It would be great to get together and give it a go. In the next few weeks I have a lot of irons in the fire, but hope to be able to go when the weather cools down a bit, and hope that things will slow down a bit for me. I did tie a few of the ants, and hope to get to try them in the next few days in the evening after work.

Regards,

Gandolf

[crazy4oldcars]

Gandolf,
Same thing over here on the right side. It's either 60 hr work weeks, or just to damned hot. I got out last weekend for a couple of hours, and like to have ended up with heatstroke. The couple of fish I caught helped, tho. I think I'm going to try to get out about daybreak tomorrow down at the creek.
Good luck getting out.

Kirk

[Gandolf]

Hi All,

This evening I finally got to get out for an hour or a bit more this evening. Fished the Lake Meridith stilling basin. It is hard to fish, lots of cat tails around about 2/3rds of the bank. I did fish from the fishing dock for a while.

The ant did not go, nor did an olive and orange.

Just about dark I saw a hex spinner on the water, and a few in the air. The one in the water was a flourescent yellow. No spinners were in my box, but I did have some hex dries, so I put one on. By then it was dark, and mosquitoes were coming in in waves. I have a small flashlight in the box, so fired it up, but the batteries were pretty weak so it took quite a while to tie on the fly and treat it with fly float.

Finally I got the fly onto the water. Fish were breaking water, but I couldn't see any hexes, and the swirls were small like small fish taking midges or something similar. Every once in a while you would see a bigger swirl, but not many.

By casting toward the west, you could see the fly as a dark spot on the water against the light color water where the sky was reflected. Finally, a swirl, and I set the hook. I couldn't really feel much of a fish, but there seemed to be one on. After a bit I landed the monster, and only fish of the trip. Cool, a 5 or 6 inch channel cat on a #6 or #8 hex dry.

Maybe I may be able to get out on Saturday morning for a bit, it remains to be seen.

At least, fishing, and a fish!

Regards,

Gandolf

[Bluegill222]

one's better than none and at least you finally got out!