Friends, Flies and Fishing

Dateline: April 24th (Sat)
Went Fishing w/ Dr. Lee (FRC Member) his son Zack, my son Blake and a friend Jay.
Blake and I set up with a sinking line, short leader and Olive Sculpin w/ a mono weed guard.
The wind was blowing but switched directions constantly so we did not consistently have the same direction of drift.

In about 45 minutes we had had 9 hits, landing 5 including one brute of a brown who had put a kill shot on the Sculpin and swallowed it whole. Using a curved pair of hemostats was able to carefully remove the hook with minimal trauma to "big brown". Just a reminder, if you are not able to retrieve the fly w/o undo trauma; then cut the leader and tie on a new fly.

Dr. Lee, Jay & Zack were doing just about the same using slightly different tactics.

Proceeded to walk the lake with Blake, he was most content throwing rocks into the water - so much for sneaking up on fish ;-). I had forgotten his kite which normally buys me 1-2 hours more on the pond. Noted that water was comming in on the NE corner of the pond and excess water was exiting out of the SW corner into the irrigation ditch. At the NE (High Side) of the pond we observed several pairs of "trident" subs - with their heads up towards the water flowing in - no not a giant land locked trout. These are the grass carp put in 5(?) years ago to help with the weed control problems. I estimated there numbers to be about 20 still alive; with no stocking records from that time - verbally I remember being told we originally received 50. If you do hook up into one of these, and are luck enough to land it - post a picture for all to see.

Quick reminder that Dr. Merrill and his Boy Scout Troop is going in next week for their service project. They are going to start the mechanical weed eradication process for the club.

Also welcome to the FRC 3 new members Jay, Kevin and Derald. Remember to post on the Blog and fill out the fishing reports in the cabin (no longer kept in the box outside).

Tight Lines,
Randy :-)