Weather man missed today!

The lightning and rain Monday coupled with Tuesday's forecast led to us once again postponing a scheduled trip.  It seldom fails that any time I back a trip up I run anyway to check new water and have a good day. When I could stand it no longer, we left the house late and squeezed in a four hour scouting trip.  It never rained the first drop, but we did fight a pretty stiff wind.

We apparently got in on the tail end of a very good morning bite as we caught seven trout up to 26-inches on a Catch V and a bone-chrome sided She Dog as soon as we shut the big motor down.  The water was pretty off-colored, but there was lots of bait working the shoreline.  After two hours of practice casting, we caught two slot reds and one over sized fish to end on a positive note.  I hope that we left those fish biting as we made only one drift and called it a day.

We didn't check a lot of water, but the areas we fished were all off-colored.  We never even stopped in the river, but it was as dirty as I have seen it in a while.  It has been in great shape and should clear up quickly if we can avoid too much more rain.  I cut through the marsh on the way back in and was surprised to find several of the backwater lakes we fish in August-September already to grassed up to even run.

That was not a problem this time last year.  Chuck told me late last week that he still had a good bite going, but a lot of the water he fly fishes is already choked up very badly. One of the trout that we cleaned today had a small bream in its stomach.  Maybe we need to start throwing more fire-tiger!