Better get this out before I forget what happened all weekend. " Us old guys forget a lot" Saturday the wind was a blowin again not bad to begin with and everybody I called the night before had honey dos to get done before they could go out and play. ( retirement is way to busy )
I twisted up some small way small dry Midges Spinner #18s in purple, olive, and red. half dozen each and took them out to Salmon Creek. early I saw the fish slurpping them early one morning but couldn't tell as to what color they were. I tyed my tippit on while still on the bench because I knew that I would never be able to do it out in the field anymore.
With the little flies in the box I got out to the creek early, setup the Sage Flite 370-4 new 9ft. 6X leader added 3ft of 7X tippit and tyed on my Midge Spinner while still at the truck.
When I got about 15ft from the water I got down on my hands and knees and did the slow crawl to the edge pulled out about 20 feet of line and set the bug about six inches short of the far under cut bank. Before I could get the first mend half way done I saw the head come up and slurp my fly, I raised my rod and it bent over and then the splash the zing of the reel and snap. First Fly Gone. I tye on another. Almost the same story but this time it comes to Papa. a nice little 14 inch Bow. Not the biggest in this section of water. Well worth the effort.
I caught five more Bows and lost three more flies to the bushes behind me and on in a tree. The wind picked up to the point it was almost impossible to cast more than 30 feet with any accuracy. I was done for the day.
Sunday Gary came down about 10. He had never fished either Salmon Creek nor Green Lake. So we decided to hit both. First Salmon Creek for about 2 hours, With three weight in hand and all rigged up with Hopper and BWO. We had a blast. then went and hit Big Green.
We had to put my # two Pontoon boat together for him to use. I handed his a tub of assorted flies and he hit the water. By the time I had my stuff together he had boated more Bluegill than he could remember.
His comment when I caught up with him " If you don't have a bite in less tan 10 seconds there is somthing wrong, I love this.
FISH OFTEN, ENJOY LIFE WITH OUR FRIENDS, GO BARBLESS
BE KIND TO THE ENVIRONMENT
You can almost always count on Green to tighten a few lines.
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