The weather update, and a fishing update.

The weather has been very funky around here lately and then today it is 67 degrees and sunny with only a few clouds in the sky. The weather peeps said it was supposed to rain and be windy today. Guess they were wrong, by a long shot. Mostly though it has been pouring of rain, which I admit was needed, but I dont like the rain. It has also been windy and cold on top of that rain. 

Havn't been fishing though in some time. Today is already ruled out, slept in to late and did other stuff. now it is to late to even think about going. Tomorrow, I wont be going either. Have some other obligations to do besides the fishing. so it takes a backseat. 

Maybe next weekend or on wednesday when I get out of school early. 

tomorrow and tying update

I will be going fishing tomorrow, Right after school. 

Hopefully I can break my one fish a day streak! and catch more than one. 

Other than that, I have officially decided to stop tying flies for a while. At least until I use some of my backstock up. I mean some backstock is fine but holy shit, having three medium sized plano boxes packed with flies I will hardly ever use is kinda ridiculous. So I decided to stop tying flies until I use up some of the backstock to trees and fish. So I expect to not tie any flies for a few months. I am happy with this decision and have already put my tying crap away. Hopefully I will be able to refrain from tying. I think I can....I think I can.. lol. 

I will write tomorrow on how fishing went. Hopefully well but we'll see. 

good fishing, that is, if you aren't locked up in a cabin with snow around! ahh I love middle california, It never snows here! trout season all year long! Ha! 

Todays fishing trip

Well as I said I would be going fishing today. I did and didnt do all to great. 

I arrived later in the day at about 3:30pm and walked around the lake to find a few rising fish. I setup a indicator and Nymph. I had the 3wt with me and started working the water. Not really working it because the fish wanted the nymph to be barely moving if not at all, Which is boring as hell. 

So I got my patience up and missed a take or two and finally hooked up and brought one fish to hand on a pattern that I had just kinda thrown together the other day. As I landed the fish his head came just outta the water, and I released tension on the line and the hook fell outta the fishes mouth and the fish flipped and released himself! Nice! I didnt even have to get my fingers wet. 

It was somewhat gross though, As the fish had been hurt badly by something and half its tail was missing. You could see his tail bones clean and sticking out of his back. It was a disgusting site to say the least. 

No pictures today, I have not been taking the camera out with me lately. For no real reason other than I dont want extra weight and There havn't been any bug fish to take pictures of. 

Recent fishing

I have been out trout fishing over the weekend, on saturday and sunday. It has been pretty tough lately! 

I headed out on saturday optimistic about catching some fish but once I arrived Was surprised that they were not taking streamers or small soft hackles. I tried other things but nothing was the ticket, I was starting to scratch my head. I then met up with a buddy who regularly fishes there. I asked him what had been working and he said they were close in and would only take tiny stuff moving very slowly or not at all. 

So with that info I put on a Size 16 Ray charles( Not exactly tiny but hey who knows) under a Bobber (indicator). I walked on down the shore and immediately had a take. I set hook and landed the only dumb fish in the lake. That was the only fish I caught that day. The fish was small about 14". 

On sunday I went out again this time with a dry dropper set up. The dry a stimulator and the dropper a size 14 ray charles. I started walking around the lake to locate rising fish. Which I was seeing none of. And the only place they were rising was where some baitfishers were parked.( the baitfishers were not catching anything). 

Soo I waited around for the baitfishers to leave. Finally they left and me and my buddy richard took the spots. I hooked up with a fish almost immediately and brought it to hand. It was a nice fish with the exception of a sore right before its dorsal fin. my guess would be about 16". 

Then I missed a fish while i was "asleep at the fly". I was gazing at the scenery and then felt the strong tug of a fish pulling line. Yanked back into reality I tried to set the hook but missed the fish. Richard managed to land one fish as well. 

We then walked around the lake to find that someone had fed the fish and they were rising to pellets. We tried multiple dries and pheasant tails to mimic the pellets but they would not take anything. 

So recently we have been able to catch only one fish per day to avoid the dreaded skunk and that has been it. I might go out later today if all goes as planned. 

skunked

Last time out fishing, I got skunked. It was a crappy day And I could NOT figure out what they were eating. frustrating to say the least. 

Havn't been out for a few days though. School started again, no more winter break, and I hav been busy. 

Tomorrow we go oto the Monterey Bay Aquarium..Should be fun..Even though I went the other week. Can never get enough of the aquarium. 

crappy weather

Well lately the weather around here in cali has been very crappy. 60+mph winds, and 6+ inches of rain since friday. I guess we did need the rain but holy crap this is a lot of rain!

Anyway, I did go fishing on friday, In the rain. It was difficult because they have not planted the lake in a while, and one of the new workers keeps feeding the fish every day! Maybe if they had just planted fish it would be ok if he kept feeding them but this is frickin ridiculous. All the fish in the lake are stuffed to the gills( pun intended) and they are not readily taking flies to much.  I still did alright though. I took the new TFO 3wt and caught 2 on black buggers and brown buggers. 

On thursday though I did much better. I had once again taken out the TFO 3wt. I caught 8 fish that day. seven of them were on a black copper john and 1 other was on a peacock woolly bugger.  I was fishing the black copper john with a bobber( strike indicator) and was catching fish literally 10ft from the shore and nice fish to!

Maybe tomorrow if the wind and rain is not to bad, I will try to go fishing.  Am I crazy??............Probably! 

Until this rain clears and I have been stuck inside, I have been tying flies and organizing my fly gear. 

Built a rod tube

I recently built a rod tube for the new TFO.

Here are some pics...