It Was Better Than I Expected.

Free of appointments for the next week I drove down to try the fishing, work on the Lordville Estate closedown and maybe see if any bucks showed up to admire the Lordville ladies. Loaded the car with detritus from the garage and combined a trip to the transfer station with some east side fishing.

The first stop was at the BK, which at 180cfs is fishable. Fished from about 2:00 until 4:15. The bad, saw but two fish rise, two olives hatch, and about half a dozen Hebes blow by in the wind. The good, had eleven fish come to my flies. Six refused, five ate and I landed two of them, both rainbows between 10 and 11 inches. The one good fish I rose did a somersault two inches from the fly when he decided not to eat it.

Drove down river to the EB where I fished from 4:30 until 5:30. Saw one fish rise, (never looked at my fly). Saw no bugs. Rose three fish and landed the one that ate, (another 10.5 inch rainbow).

Final stop was on the BR at a pool close to home. Fished for forty-five minutes. Saw a handful of tiny spinners in the slack water along the shoreline and some, (not many), brown caddis flying upstream. Never saw a fish rise. Had three fish come to my fly, hooked two, both good fish, and landed a 17 inch brown.

Basically nothing has changed, there are very few bugs of any kind hatching, the fish are willing to come up and look at your fly, but if you need targets to fish to, you'd best put your rod up and call it a season. If you are willing to blind cast you have a chance of raising fish and if you're lucky you may get one to eat.

Will try the WB tomorrow if it's not too high, perhaps there 's enough bug activity there to get a fish or two up and feeding.