NOT A MUSKY
It has rained for three days. There have been bands of heavier showers come through the area. A friend west of town got twice the amount of rain that we did. It is time to go fishing, but I know that trying to drive into a pond will not be a good idea.
I head off to a pond that I know. The pond has crappie, bass and some green sunfish in it. It also is not a very long hike to get into. I do take my rubber boots to wear, knowing that the grass will be wet.
I take two rods with me, Two 5 wts, to enable me to cast some heavier, bulkier flies. I put two fly boxes into a fanny pack and take that with me. I am too lazy to take the vest with all the boxes in with me.
I get out to the land where the pond is, and I take everything out of the truck and start the hike in. I get to where there is a little ravine that runs down the hill, but it is full of water. It is about a 200 yard hike to get around this and to the pond.
This does not give me a good feeling about what the pond will look like. If the ravine is full of water, then the pond is probably also full and the water is probably colored.
I get to the pond and find this to be true. The water is about two feet higher than normal and it is also very dirty. Not the best of conditions, but I am there and have to time to put a line in the water.
I put flies on the two rods and start casting. I am hoping that some of the fish have come into the shallower water to find the food that has washed into the pond.
To make a long, long ramble shorter, the net result was zero fish and zero strikes. Many flies were fished, shallow, deep, fast, slow, jerky and any other combination of things that I could think off.
I am not sure of how many casts I made, but the thing of a ”musky being the fish of a thousand casts” came to mind. Not my most successful day, but just goes to prove that I have a lot to learn about catching fish in dirty water.
I spent two hours at the pond before deciding to quit.
I know it was not the best day to try, but that never stops me from trying.
I hope then end of your fishing year has more success than the end of mine appears to be having.
Hope you can get out on the water.
Rick