Hope you're all doing well. Been gone for a while..... Work.... life.... a new daughter and no sleep! It's been quite good except for my withdrawls from fishing kicking in like crazy and I was about to break when an opportunity came up for me to go somewhere and we a line.
Since I like to tuck in my son and daughter I decided to make it a day trip to the Kern and called up my buddy to go along and fish. We left at 6 am and got to K-ville around 8:30.
I had taken with me my new boo rod I build to give it a go and see how it performed. I was graciously lent a Cattanach 5 wt a while back by Pete (thank again) which made me decide to build one for myself. It's a blond rod with light olive wraps and turquoise trims, came out pretty nice except there was some leakage in the varnishing department and there are some blotchy dark spots through the color preserver (Man I did about 6 coats to).
Went to James store to pick up a license for my friend, he too has not fished this year, and off we went.
It was pretty slow 'till about 11:30 to 12. I had one to hand that entire time. Once the sun had some time on the water and the temps rose a few we started seeing more fish to hand. We caught a mess load, wild and stocked. I was fishing a prince and a tiny midge trailer... It was good.
I ended up with a bunch of ldr's as well as foul hooked fish, ever have days where you foul hook a lot?
I also caught my first ever brown from the K! I've heard and seen pictures of a few lucky people who catch them there but this was my first time in my entire fishing career on the K that I have caught one! I was pretty stoked!
so here are a few pictures for ya!
here is a beautiful KR resident with the boo
here is my brown
I had to take another picture just to make sure!
and the bamboo rod which worked like a charm! a dream to cast and very fun to hook fish on!
Artin
