Sunday, June 5, 2011

First Bass on Fly caught in the Yak'

He was about 2.5lbs.  Took about 5-10 min of fighting him trying to keep him out of a fallen tree and some deep rock.  It has been so long since I have hooked a decent fish on fly!  This guy really got me excited about this fishing this year.  Granted, I only caught one other fish (redeye).  I spent a lot of time scoping out new fishing holes.  The river has changed such a great deal since the flood last year and all the rain this year.  One of my favorite fishing homes, a sand bar that split two holes, a deep stagnate pool on the left and a flowing shallow pool on the right, is no longer there.  Instead, further down stream a deep hole has become a shallow strip that soon I will have to pull the yak over to get past it.  I think all that rock used to be my sandbar!  But there are now new holes to learn and new fish to catch!