Date: September 15, 2007
Location: Famous Original Ray's
Air temp: 70s
Water temp: ???
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: nada
Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:
Fruit Booter
Quickdraw
Scotty Mac
TP
Xan
Tokyo Drift
B-Chubnut
When Saturday morning rolled around, I was useful for about 30 minutes. Just long enough to get some coffees, pick up Scotty Mac, and get us to the rendezvous spot (Booter's house #2). Once there, I promptly made cozy with a sleeping mat, trying to fight off the bad feelings that had come from the prior night of binge drinking on an empty stomach. Too much tequila, not enough nachos. The story of my life.
We jammed five people into Booter's Old Blue, and made our way to a gas station before leaving the cities. I dispatched the contents of my stomach, mostly apple juice and coffee (and perhaps some beer), into their lovely toilet, then slept for most of the ride to the river (waking occasionally to eat a Chicken McNugget or drink some water).
When we arrived at Famous Original Ray's, we met up with QD and TP. This was a special occasion, as we had an original F.A.G. visiting us in B-Chubnut. We were also graced with the presence of Tokyo Drift, a lousy nickname, but a fine fellow. Today, we would be seven strong, and as one could surmise, even without knowing it was a clear, sunny day with low water levels, the fishing sucked ass.
The water levels were quite low. For the first time in memory, the floor of the big pool was visible. Despite the conditions, B-chubnut was able to land a fish:
Booter claims to have caught "a bunch," but this was not witnessed by anyone. He did, however, manage to make some new friends of the beef and curd persuasion.
We finished the day at the EPB&G, with some burgers, curds and pull tabs.
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