[Note: this is the final “retro trip report” and gets me up to date with a log of all of our fishing trips since resuming fly fishing.]
Weather was supposed to be high 70s but felt hotter. Humidity was really high and nasty. We both got uncomfortably hot and tired.
There’s not a lot to report about this trip. It was similar to the previous one four days earlier but with no landed trout. James caught 3 creek chub and 6 common shiner. I caught 52 creek chub and 72 common shiner, on a mix of killer bug, copper john, and amano kebaris, including a self-tied one. About the only real development was that we discovered a way to wade into the head of “deep pool” that got us in casting range of the nice deep portion of the far bank. Here I hooked two trout, one on a killer bug, the other a copper john (first time I hooked a trout on a nymph). Both were on the line for a good while and the net was deployed in each case, but they both got off. I briefly hooked one more trout downstream, again on a copper john, but it was only on the line for a few seconds. Other than that, nada. The normally productive lower section didn’t yield any hint of trout this time.
It was okay, but kind of a let down not to land any trout. And as I say, we ended up really tired out.
