ONCE AGAIN WALLEYE AND A FEW TROUT

Last Friday me and Dad tried our luck with the Walleye. This trip there was no moon and the conditions seemed somewhat more favorable for walleye. We had a slight ripple of wind and it was overcast, just an all around beautiful night to be on Dale Hollow. We started a little later than last time, we left the dock at straight up midnight. Dad had been fishing throughout the week and knew that the bite usually never started before at least midnight. Again we were using the husky jerk, reeling it slow in shallow water.

I caught two keepers and dad hauled in four. At least four of the fish were 3lbs or better. We also each caught a smallmouth, both in the slot.

My plan was to fish till 2 or 3 am, take a quick nap on dad's houseboat then join Bird at the river for some trout fishing. Around 2am I realized that if I layed down I probably would have a hard time getting up so we just kept on fishing.

At 5am I headed to Headricks for a sausage biscuit and a hogleg of caffiene. I was wading the Obey by 5:15am. Bird joined me soon after 6am. I threw the fly of the moment, zebra midge size 16, for quite a while with no luck. Everybody but me seems to be slaying the trout. I think I need to go to flyfishing school or something.

Around 9am I figured I better head home and get some much needed rest. At this point I had zero hits. Bird had already caught two which didn't make me feel any better. I theorized that maybe my strike indicator was too big and it was spooking the fish. I took it off and went to a dry fly as my strike indicator, dropping my zebra midge off the hook. At the last chute before leaving I caught two small stocked rainbows back to back.

That made my day.