It starts out as an overcast, very windy, showery day (and pretty much stays that way until it starts raining harder later in the afternoon.) Anyhow, we being a ways down from the O’Donnell farm (at a ledge where Jack Dennis allegedly caught a bunch one day); blind fishing a nymph produces 5 fish by 10:30 a.m., although they’re surprisingly only in the 14-16” range. Fortunately, the wind is blowing upstream. Tough day for sight fishing, more of the same blind fishing produces another 4 fish over the day, in about the same category size-wise. I do hook a better fish (5-7 lbs?) and get a little heavy handed with him at the end-snap-gone…The rain settles in and we make the long trudge back to the farm-an excellent deal by the way, good folks, very accommodating. A few notes – Bob gets his flies from “the Compleat Angler” in Christchurch. Wait on the backcast on long casts. See a largish eel in mid-river this a.m.! “North-South” debate re: direction of local rivers. Lots of beer and wine. Cool slip-knot for white yarn (ginked)
