The Fun is over and the Work Begins

Terry's Big Fish of the Day

Terry and his friend Butch from Missouri finished up the sight fishing season with me on Tuesday.  The wind blew from every direction and fishing was a little slower than last week.  There was still plenty of fish on beds if the wind would allow you to see them.  We had about and hour of flat water and most of our fish came in that period.  We spent a lot of time running from cove to cove looking for flat water and about the time everything calmed down the wind would switch to another direction.  My eyes still hurt from squinting threw the ripples.  

I didn't catch as many fish this year and the size seemed to be a little smaller.  The reason for the smaller fish was because we seemed to have more wind this year.  The bigger fish come out of deeper water and with the ripples on the surface you just can't see into 10 feet of water.  It will be a couple of weeks before we return to Lake Almanor and the sight fishing will probably be over.  Next comes the Hex hatch, watch out trout.

Well the fun is over for a while and I am back in RB drawing up a new job that will start tomorrow.  It should take about two weeks and 20 gallons of sweat.  We should be back up to the cabin about June 12th for the summer.  

Missouri Butch and a nice Smallie