Got up to Scarlett around 6pm on Tues, fished until O'dark:30. Lot's of little ones on micros and tiny AP's. No size worth bragging about. Not much happening on top. Some pmds and small caddis, but no large takers.
Local Mexican joint for eats, had a great chicken ceaser's and a soda for dinner and then beddyby in the back of my truck on my fouton, too late for a movie.
Wed started below Cantara around 7am, fished until my T time at 11:00. Pretty quiet in the sunlite, but then once I found some shade things got better. Same bugs but bigger and more fish. Hot spots were any big buckets with aerated water. Even got a few dinks on top in the sunlite with a small yellow goofus bug.
Shot a 39!!!(4 over)for the first nine and then a...gee I can't remember, for the back nine. Not bad for a bogeyandahalf golfer! Good enough to keep me coming back for more. The Mt. Shasta course is one of my favorites to play. $55 for 18 and a cart during the week. I have just started playing golf and boy am I hooked! Now I have something to do during the heat of those long summer days.
After a quick nap, I fished from Prospect up to The Falls...see Scarlett report above. Did stick a couple of larger( 14"-16" ) ones though. Stayed out even later, but still no surface action to get excited about. Did get whacked in the back of the head by a huge stone fly though, I guess it forgot to set it's June alarm clock. Stumbled blindly across the creek to my truck about 9:15 or so. Shucked my wet shorts and buzzed home to the Bay Area.
Saw my first buzztail(3-4 feet long and after 15+ years of fishing all the usual NCal rivers) walking back along the tracks, scared the poop out of me. I have snake-a-phobia anyway. It was on the tracks, along the outside of the rail, cruising along. I'm lucky I didn't have my Lab with me because he walks on top of the cement foundation blocks to save his pads from the wear and tear of the rock foundation, he might have been nailed.
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Water and ambient temps require wet wading, makes it easier to go swimming/rockjumping too. Water temps much better above Micki's. I usually like to fish down lower, but it was dead down there over the 4th, so I figured it would be just as dead over the 21st.
After a few years of going back and forth with the bobicater thing, I think I may have finally dropped the habit. BIG difference, although there certainly are situations where one is necessary.
This was my fourth time out with my new "Streamtread" boots made by a certain 800 pound gorilla. As far as wading boots, they are so-so hiking boots. As far as hiking boots they are so-so wading boots. I put cleats on them which pretty much saved me, I'm not sure how good they would be for wading without them. Pretty funny that the cleats for the "Streamtread" soles are $10 more than the cleats for the "Felt" soles. Fortunately I didn't know that I was supposed to buy "Streamtread" cleats, "Felt" cleats seem to stay in just fine, saved myself $10. Gonna buy felts next time, unfortunately(?) it looks like these current boots are going to last quite awhile.
Enuff rambling...
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