11/23/12 Drowned rat and battle scarred

I was drowned and the fish was scarred.    Started at pineville this AM and got nothing for 2 hours.   Went to the LFZ.  I was waiting for a call from Charlie and  my phone rang.   Tried to answer in mid drift and that was a mistake.   Of course fish on.   Lost the call, lost the fish and almost lost the phone.   A friend of mine showed up and we each got a quick hook up.  I landed mine.  

It was battle scarred, eye was wrecked up and a huge scar in it's head.  It eye was dangling out and all red.

 
 
Started to pour and that's when Charlie showed up.   Fished in the rain for a few hours.  Charlie lost a nice one.   I got this one to the bank.   If you look closely you can see Charlie down the wall.  I took a close call stepping off my rock and ended up in the water on my bottom, luckily I only got my sleeve wet.     I also netted a guys fish and he was so thankful he gave me a fly just like the one he caught his on.  
2/4 today.  Overall it was VERY slow all around as the day got later.   fished till about 2:30 and as soon as we got to the car the rain had almost stopped.   Good to meet Charlie  on the water and fish even if it was for a little bit.  Went to Melinda's after and all the folks in there said it was tough.   Probably done until next weekend.   After next week I have Thursday and Friday off for 3 weeks until Christmas.

sounds like a pretty  good   day ,, Thanks for the report(s)

Great to see you, Clint. My day was 0-4 and zero for 8 on sleep. I could barely stand, let alone wade. I had the misfortune of hooking good fish that were way too much for my  semi-conscious abilities.  River wasn't overly crowded, starting to thin a little.  My original plan was to take a hike mid-river,  lack of sleep changed that. I started by walking into N. side of the Upper.  Not much happening up there, and not many people. I saw a few landed, but lots of skunks for the morning. I had some long battles and heartbreaks.  I'll be up for one of those th.-fri Clint.  Looking forward to seeing those new stone flies!
 
Charlie

cool to see you guys finding open water to play in .
the fishing will get better, lets hope, but sleepless nights never do..lol..
 
 

Lucky, I was thinking the same thing. Clint has turned the corner on the learning curve and it shows in hook-ups and his good report writing. We can only hope we encouraged  a little. He sure is paying us back with the reports!  
 
Charlie