Flip Flop

Date: May 19, 2007
Location: New spot on the Curd (The Great Lawn)
Air temp: low to high 70s
Water temp: ??? (I really need to buy some new batteries)
Hatches: not much
Fish landed: 4 browns

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

Xan
Tim


TP and I headed off to the Curd River to check out a new spot. We were not too far upstream of QD's favorite spot. Most of the area is private land, so we were in the water for the majority of the day.

We started fishing after a short jaunt from the car. We both immediately started landing fish on dry flies. The browns were aggressive, sometimes even following the flies downstream before hitting.

We then proceeded to cover a large stretch, finding mostly shallow water with large numbers of fish that were holding in the deeper runs (which weren't many).

After moving upstream roughly a river mile, the sole on one of my wading boots finally gave way leaving it barely connected near the toes. After futilely trying to rig my 3x line to fix the problem, we hiked back through the stream with my right boot looking like a flip flop. Somehow, the last remaining bit of connection held all the way to the car.