LeonR
08-08-2004, 07:58 PM
Comedy of errors - thats the only way to describe today.
Went out early 5am wind blowing hard from the west and as you reach Faun's the water was very choppy, just did not feel right. Decide to go back to the truck for a while and weigh up options. This is where the fun starts, first always pull the Yak all the way up the beach if not you have to swim after you Yak, thank you to the friendly guy fishing and telling me, so I did not have that far to swim.
Now you decide to go fishing as you are soaked anyway. Paddle back out and get the flyrod out from behind you - first cast feels crap but you dont know why yet, after two more find out that you actually put a sinktip line on backwards *&^$^????
Take 10min to do this ( On a yak in choppy water!) cast again and only then see that you now have a popper on the sinktip (some more %$#^&&%)
Fix that, now decide to take the other rod with floatline and try a popper, cast crap again - wrong line weight, bad idea give that up.
Hook a nice fish on Clouser and get him in, check against the mark on the first eye of rod, just to short.
Just as I released the fish I remember that the eye is 32inches not 28, so the fish is 31 not 27, some more %$#@.
Now to top the day my favorite Charter %$#@ "My Sunshine" trol past my back less than 20 feet away, %$@ idiot (Apologies to idiots everywhere).
That guy has no regard for anyone but himself, I asked him if he thought they could get closer....
Saw some other boats catch nice fish but decided to call it a day, it could only get worse and after the start I did not want to see what worse could be...
Left at 10h30...
Went out early 5am wind blowing hard from the west and as you reach Faun's the water was very choppy, just did not feel right. Decide to go back to the truck for a while and weigh up options. This is where the fun starts, first always pull the Yak all the way up the beach if not you have to swim after you Yak, thank you to the friendly guy fishing and telling me, so I did not have that far to swim.
Now you decide to go fishing as you are soaked anyway. Paddle back out and get the flyrod out from behind you - first cast feels crap but you dont know why yet, after two more find out that you actually put a sinktip line on backwards *&^$^????
Take 10min to do this ( On a yak in choppy water!) cast again and only then see that you now have a popper on the sinktip (some more %$#^&&%)
Fix that, now decide to take the other rod with floatline and try a popper, cast crap again - wrong line weight, bad idea give that up.
Hook a nice fish on Clouser and get him in, check against the mark on the first eye of rod, just to short.
Just as I released the fish I remember that the eye is 32inches not 28, so the fish is 31 not 27, some more %$#@.
Now to top the day my favorite Charter %$#@ "My Sunshine" trol past my back less than 20 feet away, %$@ idiot (Apologies to idiots everywhere).
That guy has no regard for anyone but himself, I asked him if he thought they could get closer....
Saw some other boats catch nice fish but decided to call it a day, it could only get worse and after the start I did not want to see what worse could be...
Left at 10h30...