Well, Dick and I squeezed another day out of the fishing year. The weather was too nice to pass up. We spent most of the morning below route 9 in the area from the USGS gage down past the hatchery pipe. Seemed like fewer fish - George thinks they have gone up the pipe and every now and then come back down to frolic and feed and get caught. They better enjoy their time while they can, because come 1/1/11 they will be fair game to move into the category of food. Speaking of food, after a quick sandwich we fished above route 9 (permanent catch and release area.) Dick has not had much success in the past in that area, but today he landed the nice rainbow pictured here. Congrats Dick! I hit a couple of my usual spots with only a few small brookies to show for it. Then I worked my way downstream a couple hundred yards and picked up a few nice rainbows. One in particular is notable, in that I was fishing a shallow run where I could see some feeding fish. My usual rig of a small BHPT with a softhackle dropper was too heavy. So I took off the nymph and tied on a size 20 parachute BWO as an indicator fly for the size 24 softhackle dropper. After making about 20 drifts over a nice rainbow, he suddenly sipped the dry and the fight was on. A nice way to cap a great season. Stay tuned for news from Florida!
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