A real raw 30’s kind of day. Not cold enough for ice in the guides. But overcast. Snow in the mountains both sides of the river. Just chilly. But no wind.
Fished the same spot, but altered my tactics. Decided to fish a couple small nymphs under an indicator on my 3 wt. Went with a rust colored copper john trailing a t.c.t.k. About ten minutes into it, the indicator went down and there was some real weight on the end of the line.
More weight than the size of the bow would indicate. You know, foul hooked weight ?? Since the fishy wouldn’t eat the fly, the dependable t.c.t.k. went after the fish, and got him just at the back of the dorsal fin. A decent sized bow foul hooked on a 3 wt is a different kind of fun. Wasn’t quite sure til I got him real close that he was as small as he was.
Came out of the slower water near the seam.
Just about the same place I caught a similar size fish last week on the REE FEB nymph.
After that, it was two hours of pushing broom, wasn’t that Roger Miller doing that for an 8 x 12 two bit room ?? Well, not exactly. I did catch the bottom a fair number of times, which means the flies were getting down where I wanted them. But not where the fish were.
BUT - it was a great day for wildlife. On the way in, I saw three this year’s fawns, whitetail type. Going back to the access from the river, I saw the second muskrat of the day in the backwater shown in the slideshow. The other one was midstream in the river. Just when I got back to the truck there was a doe with a fawn, and on the way out, I saw another pair.
Not to mention the four mule deer first thing this morning on the hill behind the house. Or the one I saw there later in the day. Or the herd of buffalo ( must be somewhere around 75 ) just a few miles up the road in a very large meadow between the highway and the river.
Click on the pic for a few more scenes from today.
John
