A Perfect Day on the Water

I found myself listening to the symphony of water dancing across the rocky bottom, on vacation and having the perfect day. I’m an analog man in a digital world so any chance I have to get out of the rat race and into the wild disappearing behind the old oaks and down weathered trails to the streams edge to cast a fly, I take it.

As I recall it was a clear very sunny, 58° with a water temperature of 51° moving at 110 cfs. The river was the bluest I had ever seen. When I reached the water there were two fishermen on a very nice pool so I moved up stream to the next. I asked how they had been doing and the answer was not good. So I decided to fish tandems and double my luck hitting two water columns at once.

Now, I rarely fish tandems because of the wind we have here in Oklahoma however, on this day there was none. I went with a soft hackle then a midge. Bingo, Fish on!

It just keep getting better and better. I brought 6 fish to hand on that pool then I moved to the lower pool where the other two fisherman had been but had since moved on, back to the parking lot. I noticed a nice seam with plenty of bubbles.

Well, I went on to catch 4 more fish out of that hole and the largest of that perfect day on the water. 2 hours with 10 Rainbows brought to hand.

- H. Lewis

Angler, Wonderer, Naturalist