September 6th outting

Tonight, my buddies, Scott and Mike joined me on the river. This time, I decided to bring a backpack to throw in my fly-rod and light rod so I at least had the option to switch it up a bit.

The weather was rainy and cool throughout the day. There was a breeze when we got out there and the water was chilly. Weren't sure what the fish would do tonight. Scott and Mike both broke the ice pretty quick. Scott used his small spinner again, and Mike eventually switched to something similar. I had a couple hits but didn't land anything early on.

Eventually I had had enough of them catching everything. I switched to my fly-rod with a wet fly. A couple casts and I had a chub on my line. I caught a quick 2 fish so the confidence started to sore. The beauty part was, I knew what I was doing (technique-wise) to catch them. A nice long, slow retrieve after having let the fly float down with the current a bit.

Between my second and third fish we had some laughs, when I fell in the cold water. My feet got caught up on some rocks, lost my balance, and in I went. Good times. But boy was I ever cold for a while after that! The breeze wasn't helping. Not long after that, I had a great hit for my third fish. I nice size chub. Good fight, good hit. Awesome.

Overall I caught 6-7 fish on the night. Not overly productive. The boys caught over 10 each easily. Bass and chub as per usual. We also decided to head up toward the dam again, with little success. Then Mike convinced us to go through the bush back to the old canal spot. By the time we got there it was pretty dark. A slow walk back produced some more laughs. I lost my footing again and almost fell into the water again! My arm got wet but I caught myself. While this was happening, Scott turned to see me fall but kept walking. So at the same time, he began to fall forward.... falling into Mike and pushing him right into the water! LMAO! We all busted a gut laughing! It was priceless. 5 feet to go until he would've been on shore. Perfect! A great way to end the night.