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Originally Posted by trfour
Hay, I hear you Hairy! Not to dance on anyones parade. Mother Nature has a way of informing us that She has, and will adjust all of our well intended beliefs. She, and will always control ( What, and where ). However, this gives us an and the opportunity to learn. I have so enjoyed your fishing adventures and videos this year. Yes we try to take advantage of any open waters what we can after a long winter! Yes, and I too am enjoying your early fishing adventures from Alton Bay NH!
Terry
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Thanks, loads! I'm glad it doesn't come across as relentless self-promotion.
Speaking of "adventures", funny story from last Sunday - just as I left Alton I guess a bunch of young guys with spinning rods came over to the spot we were fishing and tried to crowd in on Trav and the others. They had no luck fishing from shore next to the dock and after a while got grumbly. Now the thing about those fish that day was that they were only hitting ONE fly pattern and only if retrieved a certain way - fast strip across the surface on a floating line. Anybody who tried it with anything else got skunked. Trav and I both handed out samples of the hot fly and a few others managed to get fish, but again ONLY on the fly. So at one point one of the young guys barks "You oughta let somebody else on that dock, give us a chance!"
Trav and I had been sharing the dock, but only with other fly fishermen. One of the others, a young guy himself said "They'd have to be crazy to give up a spot that's producing fish just so you four can go out there and get skunked!"
So the guy takes umbrage and says "I got live smelt - that's better than flies! The only reason they're getting fish is they got that dock!"
My buddy Trav goes "Oh yeah? let's see.." and casts his fly right next to the guy's bobber. A salmon races up and nails it. Trav says "You got plenty of Salmon down there swimming around your smelt. Don't ask me why they won't eat it!"
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