Had a really good trip yesterday evening. And yes I did catch some fish [with 66-68 degree water I was surprized to find the bluegill in the channels hitting top water] and that was quite satifying. However, the best thing about the trip was a young man I met - about 11 or 12, I'd guess. His father has just taught him to cast a fly rod, had given him one of those "58 1/2 cent cards with 3 dozen flies on it" and told him to go get 'em! He was having a blast but wasn't catching fish. The "flies" he had were much too large and had a ton of "stuff" tied on 'em. Poor fish couldn't have eaten them if they had wanted to! And they did because they kept towing the flies around by the hackle. I pulled over and gave him a couple of my "homemade" poppers and water spiders. Watched him catch his first fish on a fly rod - that was one excited kid! His father doesn't know what he missed.

Donald