Hobby Sports

At Least I Got To Touch a Fish

Fishing has been rough the last few outings.  I havent eaten this much shit since I started fly fishing.  I cant believe how many skunks Ive encountered in the last few outings.  The usual suspect and I fished Prado.  This is, at least on paper, spawning season for bass but with all this on again off again weather, the bass must be confused.  It seems every time a bass is ready to bust a load, mother nature splashes cold water at its boner.  Its been making fishing harder than a twelve year old at the playboy mansion. 

Tip Of The Day: Catching Percentages Increase Exponentially If you Have a Hook On Your Fly.

Being a stubborn son of a bitch, I didnt listen to Chul and fish a floating line but rather my 150 grain line.  Perhaps that is the reason he got a fish and I left stinking of the skunk.  Rough day for the both of us but Chul managed a quality 2 pounder after about a gazillion casts.  I had about two gazillion casts and caught a childs sock that I initially thought was a magnum sized condom.  Either way I didnt want to be touching it.

What The Hell Is That? Part Goose, Part Chicken, Part Turkey.  It must be a genetic mutation from all that agricultural run off.

My contribution to Chuls pram: a fly patch I bought in Japan over a decade ago that I intended to use on a boat I never did buy.

Should be me holding that damn fish!

Chul returned to the fishing hole where I lost two massive fish (for that water) on his birthday trip. This is the first fish I lost which was smaller of the two. I know for a fact that this is the first fish as it still had the San Juan Worm that was my fourth trailing fly attached to its tail.  I have a bunch of emotions about this.  Im filled with so much envy right now I might just puke myself.  That is one nice fish.  Good job Chul, you son of a bitch! Ha, ha, ha.  I dont know what is worse knowing that could have been me in that pic or never knowing what those fish looked like.  Well have to return to find that second fish that ran upstream.  That one was bigger, much bigger.

The proof- San Juan Worm that I mocked before stealing from Chul and tying it on.