Trip report 5-15-2018

by David Noll
(Lake City, MN)

Over the last year I have been mostly fishing with a Nissin 395 Honryu. It works well on large fish and is still fun with the little guys. A couple of weeks back due to a rookie mistake I broke the second section up from the handle. So I pulled my Nissin Zerosum 360 out of the bag. I had forgotten how sweet it was.

Monday I took a recently retired friend out trout fishing for the first time in 40 years. The day started out sunny but eventually it started raining. By the time my friend said he had to get back for a Lion's meeting we had landed close to 100 fish. Dave was using an old fly rod with 40 year old line and a spinning rod. After watching my Zerosum in action he is going to try Tenkara the next time out. I was using a SRW (San Ron Worm) and Pink Squirrel. I landed nearly 50 on the Squirrel. At the end we were just laughing every time we hooked another fish.

“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.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.