Yesterday morning morning started in extreme emergency mode…practically DEFCON 2…let me explain.
Remember that post I wrote about my lucky fishing hat a few months ago? Well it’s MIA. I looked high, I looked low, and I just couldn’t find it. May need to get a hold of John Rambo to go retrieve it. It will surely turn up (likely in the bottom of Lilly’s toy box), but yesterday morning it posed quite a dilemma as I hadn’t gone fishing in a month and didn’t want to suffer the skunk due to improper headwear. I mean Dumbo couldn’t fly without his feather…or could he…?
So to compensate, I grabbed an old random Mossy Oak hat for the noggin, but tossed on my new Arizona Wanderings tee (from the blog of the same name) in hopes I would bring some luck. Ben doesn’t ever seem to have bad days on the water, and it had to work for me…at least until my new Orvis Trout Bum hat & tee arrive in the mail…
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| When there’s a “AZW Spotting” contest, consider this the first entry…grrrr… |
The first part of the morning I decided to fish some tenkara…well, because that’s what I do. The Sakura rods long gone and returned to their master, I fished my Tenkara USA Iwana with a black foam ant indicator fly and a red beadhead prince nymph drifting below. Yeah, I know…no kebaris…but I don’t always roll old school. Evidently neither do the trout, as I was able to pick off a few browns below the white covered bridge and well as a few more upstream drifting the flies near rootballs.
After fishing tenkara for about 2 or 3 hours, I went back to the Forester, collapsed the Iwana, and grabbed the “big boy” fly rod, aka my Redington Classic Trout 3-wt. Despite the rumors, I actually do fish with a reel sometimes. I was sent a furled leader by Nick from FoulHook to field test in early May, and I felt bad about not getting it wet to date.
I like the way the leader behaved, even did the “get caught in a tree, pull too hard, and the whole thing collapses in a jumble” test, and it passed without flaw, untangling itself quickly & easily. Even after that minor misahp, the trout were still in a cooperative mood.
Action like that made the walk back to the car to head home for lunch quite enjoyable. Even allowed some time to take in the surroundings.
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| Obligatory fungus… |
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| …and flower pictures. |
In the end, was a very fun morning of fishing; asking for anything more would have been greedy.
Tandem rig on a Tenkara? Now that's a mouthful. Congrats on the excellent day.
Looks like a great day on the water to me. Thanks for sharing.
Always a good day when you catch a few.Mark
Great day,and new lucky hat…now when cha going to come up here and trout/bass fish? been getting alot of 20-30 days with lots of fingerling,and tiny native browns and brookies
Looks like luck has nothing to do with it, all skill. If you need a hat, we could send you a camo hat we found floating in the local bass pond yesterday.
Great blog and of course some really great fish! You've got a new follower.Justin Shttp://fishtalesandfishtails.blogspot.com
Good Post! I'll be following!
Nice…new hat=good luck?
you can't beat a post that throws in the obligatory fungus…nice fish by the way
i really like the third fish picture. all the other pictures…ehhhhhh (i joke i joke).
Mike. Great looking shirt and it looks like it's got a little mojo. Great day on the water. Looks like I am going to have to start a little photo contest. You'll be number 1…Thanks again.Ben
Mike, the noggin is looking good to me. Shout out for the t-shirt, too!Sure pretty fish and clear water. Have you seen the picture of the river near my home?
I like fungi and flower pics. I find my best ones after tripping and winding up face down amongst them.
Man the bite was on this weekend! Nice fish.