Fished the delayed harvest section of the Watauga River in the middle of the day Friday. Nice pools and riffles about 10 yards wide. Had a new rod, a 6ft 2/3, just right for casting in tight quarters. First fish on my new rod was a 15" Rainbow, had my hands full for awhile. Landed five in three hours of fishing. A #18 bead head chartreuse Copper John worked well in the riffles and a #14 bead head chamois tan bugger worked in the pools. Only saw one other fisherman.
Grunt -
Would like to see you on that kind of trail. But then we would both feel like we ended up in a crowd ??!!
15" bow on a new 6’ 2/3 is one heck of a way to break it in. What are you gonna do for the second act ?
John
John, spent another three hours in my kayak Sunday casting to tailing carp with my 8 wt. Wind was 15mph and the carp were in the lee of a couple of grass flats where the Catawba River runs into Lake James. Got skunked this time, the fish got to win every now and then. I just can’t bring myself to use Sugar Pops.
Grunt -
That was a great change of pace, whether you got skunked or not.
John