Friday Fishing, Apr 17.

[Stan Wright]

The morning was overcast, calm with hardly a breeze. The red devils were everywhere. Some would run when you cast near them, but many more took our small bead head flys.


We used floating lines and sinking tip lines. Didn't seem to make much difference. We only saw 2 peacock bass all morning. A 12 inch one and another about 3 1/2 pounds.... that she made a beautiful "Sportsmans Release".... right at the side of the boat. She let him catch a few also.


And then at 11:35 AM it started to rain. At 11:36 AM I discovered that the pants of my rain suit were in the other boat.


The automatic bilge pump on the boat was working overtime.
The rain didn't seem to bother the fish at all. It made it a little harder to spot them, but they went right on biting those little flys.

[roadwarriorsvt]

Since I procrastinate, I haven't bought rain gear yet, so I spent 4+ hours under the bridge fishing. At least you guy were still catching in the rain!

[Stan Wright]

First I tried the $1.99 poncho.

Next was a plastic rain coat. $3.99

Then a plastic rain suit... pants and jacket. $9.99
ripped.

Moved up to a PVC rain suit. Better, but hot. $19.95

Tried the cloth lined rain suit. $30

Frog Toggs were next. Light and comfortable. But still leaked around some of the seams, wet & cold when used for a week in Alaska. $60

Graduated to the Heavy Duty yellow rain gear the commercial
fishermen in Alaska use. Key word HEAVY. $80

Got into hiking with The Boy Scouts so I broke down and got a Gortex Rain Suit... Pants and Jacket. Light, great for hiking. but
still hot in the tropical Hawaiian rain. $120 for pants and jacket.


Finally I broke down and got the Simms Pac-Light rain jacket.
Made for fishermen. $249.95 .... ( $149. if you shop around)
Pants... $179.95. (again, shop around $99.)
Now I am dry and happy.......

Well, I'm happy now that I bought Chris his his own set.... now he isn't always borrowing mine.

[bama87]

I went fishing this morning right past the Masonic Lodge on the right with no luck at all. The fish were very active, but would only bump my lure and go on their way. Me and my fishing partner, Justin Fried, fished for about three hours with nothing to show for it but some muddy sneakers. Then i decided to make the evening trip back to the same spot. There i caught a 6 pound peacock bass and a little while later a three pounder. I got several more hits but no more successful catches. I would like to thank my buddy Jeff for hanging in there even though he was catching nothing but tree branches and old tires.