Rocks Off

Dates: March 14, 2010
Location: Famous Original Ray's
Air temp: 50s
Water temp: ?
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 1 brown

Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

TAFKAY
Booter
Xan
Scoot
Quickdraw


A week's worth of thaw = brown. While the river wasn't completely blown to shit, there were no cars at the lot, which should have told us something.  We set about our Don Quixote-like quest, fighting windmills on the river.  

Things weren't all futile, however.  A new game was born.  A game that will stand by Rock-Stick-Ball and Ice Breaker.  I present to you: Displacement.  At a foamy area of the river, the Displacer throws a rock into the foam.  The rock creates a hole of clear water in the foam, whence the Contestants try to throw their own rocks into the clear water.  


Back to the story at hand.


Up and further upstream we went.  We eventually had a glimmer of hope.  Quick landed a trout in the (normally) slow water downstream of the gallery.  By the time we got to the gallery, Boot and Scoot had to go home.  TAFKAY was insistent to fish up to the first bend, and his instincts paid off.  Two fish came to his hand, one to mine, and another for Quick.


The fish were small, the fishing mostly fruitless, but it was a gorgeous day.  Now the excitement builds.  The nexus of perfect weather, good water, low vegetation and big fish is near.  The real March Madness is around the corner.  Get excited kids, game's gonna get good.