Fishing 10/19/08

I went out to the creek this afternoon at about 2 or so. The parking lots were full, so I just picked a spot between lot 2 and 3 and hiked down to the stream. It was extreme fly fishing. Trees,brush, poison oak, everything in your way. But I managed to tie on a princes nymph with a caddis mayfly dropper, let it drift under trees and under brush and WHAM. Fish on, it took me a while to get him to the net but he was a nice fat 16" rainbow, he was tired and I thought I might lose him, but after some gentle coaxing and forcing water through his gills he swam away..Whew. So I hit for or five in this spot, until some kids came a long and started chuckin lures in my hole. Later dudes!

So at about 4pm I headed up to the parking lot above the bridge. There were four or five cars parked there, so I was not that optimistic there would be a spot for me down on the river. So I walked down, and no one was there. Ran back to my truck grabbed my stuff and drifted several different patterns in the very low water, I think I got three fish none larger than 13". Then all the sudden the fish start flippin out. I mean crazy jumping all over the place. It took me about 10 minutes to go from my nymphing rig to my dry set up, but my first cast out with a may fly..Wham! Fish on. This kept on for what seemed like hours but in reality was only about 2. After they stopped hitting a certain dry pattern I tied on a new one and caught some more. Now mind you these fish were not the lunkers I would have liked but crap catching fish on dries any size is fun. I was in the "just one more mode", and did not get off the water until after 6:30pm. It was a blast.