Its not really summer yet but man its hot.
Got out with Hotdish this weekend and it was a lot of fun. Not much hatching at all so we just skated and swung caddis on glass rods, Hotdish fishin his Barclay and I fished my new to me 1st generation 3wt butter stick 6 footer.
I dug out my old MG3 and it was a perfect fit and I really missed that loud old clicker, it was my first fly reel. I like the set up so much I fished it all weekend. I had a 3wt airflo super dri elite trout line and I thought it was a good fit for far and close fishing.
It was my first time fishing a butter stick it was hot, and we covered a lot of rivers and streams fishing structure and keeping on moving down. I think its an amazing little rod and its a lot of fun, handles and lands nice trout handily and it can cast tight loops fast and shoots line well, or I can slow it way down to sticky slow casting. The MG3 really screams when a nice one takes in current. Pretty amazed what this little rod can do, it's a fine rod. I have to work a little harder on longer casts but it's not really made for that and held up well, I really like how slow the rod is and still performs well.
Needless to say we had to work for them but still ended up catching a lot of fish. There's Hotdish down river swinging down. I was working this large deep pool run, one step to my right and its over my head. I had one big trout blow up on my skated fly from the deep, hit it caught a bunch of air, landed a bolted, broke me off, I tightened my grip on the line, and still barked the clicker, should of just let him run, could of had a chance, but it was so fast.
I had to take at least one fish picture of a nice trout.
And took one of my new rod. Solid butter.
A solid weekend of fishing and we even went to a bluegrass festival one evening. Good to fish with my old bud.
Hotdish says he cant get on here with his phone anymore and post but he misses the forum.
Till next time, UF