The little fish are back

by JJ Mathes
(Georgia)

The creek where I fished for micros this summer washed out when we received 2-inches of rain in a couple of hours. This morning I tied two #28 flies and went back to the creek, the little fish are returning.

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.