Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Back On The Spawn 10Mar21

Before snow-ma-geddon and 2nd jab jitters make it to the Front Range I hit the PT again. I awoke thinking 11 Mile but the 25° temperature difference sent me south. I still received a full onslaught of winds though - typically 20+ mph today - think wind knots and resultant rerigging, and streamers in your face. I ran the same play of midges in the AM and spey practice in the PM. Caught some nice fish on the Awesome Midge, including a fat 17"er, 18" escape artist, and a longer 19"er, among others. The cutbows are wild on the redds and it was difficult finding fish to cast toward. Gorgeous day again.

Here's a vid of some action on the redds - if you can dig it...

In the afternoon, beyond getting whapped in the head with a cast, I did raise my spey casting success to ~20%. Plenty of work to do but my butt repair is solid. Man, when you do hit the spey cast right it can really cover some water. I got to 20% success by mimicking a lacrosse toss with my bottom hand-upper hand levering motion. Work to do but the rod feels sweet when I hit the note.


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