I floated the Cedar with a buddy from work from Maple Valley
River Park
to just past Cedar Grove Rd.
Saturday from about 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.� It was really one of those days.� When
I was setting up my boat my beverage holder got all screwed up and I had to
pull it off for the trip – this resulted later in a beer pouring out from
its position in my saddlebag zipper.� About � mile into the float I caught an
oar in a rocky section and broke it in half at the weld which made the rest of the
float a real pain, paddling with a single oar – the areas I would call
tricky with two oars became downright difficult.� I think the workout from
paddling with the single was double or triple normal rowing.� Add to this slow
fishing (8 – 10 bows / 8 – 10 whitefish), and the loss of eight
double-nymph rigs, and it amounted to a day of frustration.� The worst rig
loss:� nearly the whole leader got wrapped up on a solid branch and the whole
thing came off when I tried to break it free – full leader, indicator,
splits and two flies.
It’s hard to say if the fishing was off, or if I was
just off, but I think it was a combination of the two and there was certainly
more evidence of the latter.� At least right at the end I finally landed a
decent bow of 14” that put up a hellacious fight nearly running my line
around a large boulder before I managed to turn its head as it was turning the
corner.� The other saving grace of the day was a pair of 11” cutts from
the same run – they’re so infrequent in the Cedar that I really
enjoy seeing them.
Now it’s back to the vise to replace my 16 lost flies.�
What a day, what a day.
- tight lines-
Jim
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