Smack!!!
I was driving up to home waters today and decided to start the day with fishing a stream section that has been dead all summer. Why I pulled into the access area, I don't know. This place has been fishing lousy this year, and here I am pulling in to fish it. I have no idea what possessed me to fish this area? Nope, no idea at all. Well, it's a good thing I did, because the trout came back to this area and were smacking my dry fly hard! It was a great day of floating a dry fly. Smack! The cool temperatures and afternoon clouds made for a very comfortable day. Today was part of my effort to check out streams in preparation for my brother visiting me next week. I want his fly fishing vacation with older brother (me) to be a good one, so I'm trying to confirm which streams should go on the fishing schedule and which ones to avoid. A plan is starting to come together. I also wanted to test a fly line today. I picked up an old (mid-nineties model) Bauer M.5 SuperLite reel with a...
