Oh The Dry Season

CtScribe — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:02:34 +0000

This past Saturday I finally made time to head to the local fishing lake to cast my new 6 piece, hoping to hook into a nice one as well. What I forgot to take into account was that we are currently in the dry season, and the once deep, tidal waters, have now diminished to a shallow puddle. Despite the circumstances, I rolled my jeans up and waded into the murky water and began fishing. Three hours, and a horrible sunburn later, I gave up in search of some aid from the locals who had gathered to watch this mysterious method of fishing. What I learned I wish I had known before I entered the mud. Apparently, as the lake begins to lose water, the majority of the fish move out, and swim into the outlet of the lake, where they remain in a deep hole that has formed over the years.
Excited about the possibility of heading there to try my luck, I learned also that it is only permitted for young children to fish that area, leaving me back where I started.
As I was about to pack up, I ran into an older man who was carrying three large bottom-feeders; I was Interested. sure they weren’t cut-throats or Rainbows, but they were fish. The man informed me that while the other fish find their way into deeper water, the bottom feeders flourish. At this I tied on a large, olive woolly-bugger, and headed back to the mud-hole. After about only a half hour, I found it was lunchtime and began to pack up. Unfortunately, as I was retrieving my line, a large sucker took my line and snapped the bugger clean off at the tippet. Although he had the opportunity to live victorious for another week, I will be back out there tomorrow, armed with another bugger, and a bit stronger tippet.

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CtScribe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:37:45 +0000

Although I am currently in Argentina, and therefor do not get the opportunity to engage in the cold-water fall trout fishing this year, there is one thing that I thought I should throw out there for all of you who will be wading the waters of North America this coming fall.

As we all know, Northern cold-water fishing is a very popular passtime, and can become very competitive as fishermen attempt to get that last big one in before the season ends. Due to this, fisherman are always seeking advantage, and therefor the use of waders, throughout the entire season, are very popular, however, it is important to keep some very obvious things in mind.

Firstly, waders are undoubtedly a great advantage over having to stand along a bank, however, they are not entirly secure, regardless of weather the bottums of your boots are felted, or assisted by ‘corgers,’ it is important to remeber that they are not hiking boots, and you always face the risk of slipping and hurting yourself. This leads to the next, and probably more important caution I have for all of you is that waders are only waterproof from the sides and the bottums.

I have heard, and witnessed countless scary stories of fishermen being seriously injured, and in some cases drowing do to a simply slip up. What it is important to realize, it that if you fall while standing even in relatively shallow water, your waders have the potential to fill up rather quickly, and it can be increadible difficult to find footing, or tread water with that much extra weight, and therefore can have some very horrific consiquense. Although this is true, there is one very simple way to aviod such a problem.

When using waders, ALWAYS wear a strap-belt. A belt along the bellow, or waiste depending on design, will keep water from being able to so readily fill the waders, giving you more time to react to falling, and will give you opportunity to regain footing and refrane from the effects of the fall.

Anyways, I say all this to say, be careful this fall, and stay safe. All of the problems that we face throughout the rest of the season seem to become that much more dangerous as the temperature of the water drops. So be careful, and happy fishing!

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