Not much to report. After five full days of driving in a minimum of 90 degrees I felt spent. I’m not 50 anymore. I hiked down to the river, fished an hour and a half and went back to my trailer and drank several bottles of water and slept for an hour or two.
A day or two ago I posted a video of a man catching a 30 inch brown trout. I watched that guy for a bit today. I had walked behind him next to shore and listened to him scold his client a little bit. His client may have been fly fishing for the first time but caught a couple of fish. Anyway, I walked about fifty feet by him right next to the bank. A guy coming from the other direction asked me “Is that Andy?” We talked briefly and I said that I had seen a video of a guy catching a 30 inch brown trout. He said “That’s him, Andy Kim. They call him the “Trout Vacuum””. The guy was very nice. He showed me the flies to use. They were tied by Andy. I had never seen a fisherman carrying so much high end gear as the guy I was talking to. . I would say more than half of fly fisherman wear a vest and most of the others have some kind of small backpack or sling.
There were maybe 10 fisherman today. Most were sight-fishing, standing on the bank or just in the river, and casting short distances to cruising trout. Tomorrow I’ll give that a shot.