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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Fly fishing with daddy

Took Lucas out on the South Channel of the South Fork above Twin bridges for lunch today. It is almost entirely de-watered and there are pods of rising (mostly white fish) in some of the deeper holes. He landed 3 white fish on a size 16 parachute pmd dry fly. He was using my 9 foot 5 weight. I think for next season I will get him a little 6 foot 3 weight of his own. We are looking forward to floating the South Fork on the daddy son trip in a couple of weeks.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

~Norman Maclean

4 comments:

J and J said...

Don't try to scare that child so he will never want to go with you. You wisdom in what you have a young son do. I'm sure he enjoyed the fishing. Our phone is not working at the moment. Luv MOM

jabberwock said...

He had fun. We looked at deer prints in the mud, threw rocks and sticks into the water, played in the sand, walked across the river and caught a couple of fish.

He likes fishing, he always try to talk me into taking him fishing.

J and J said...

I kown the fishing is okay. Not so sure about the float trip. The Lee's son tried to go down the river at 22,000 about 2 weeks ago. After they passed Five Ore Deal, after getting stuck for an hour in the reversal, they got off the river. Need to make sure it is about 5-6000 beforee going. Luv MOM what a spoil sport I am.

jabberwock said...

South Fork trip is not on the rapids it is on the river below the dam, a fishing trip only. Though when we ran the whitewater last week (twice) at 20K cfs it was quite awesome. Ivana won't let me take him on the rapids yet.