06-27-2013, 08:41 PM
Made my way over to Henry's Lake on Monday. I wish the wind cooperated this way every time I go there. To make a great time in a nutshell. A Mity Mouse and a Mity Mouse with a chocolate colored marabou tail was the ticket each afternoon and evening. The second produced way more than the first. In the mornings it was a black simi-seal leech. While those around were not catching anything, it kept fish on the end of my line. Now the fantastic time came around 11:00 AM yesterday. I had hooked and released 8 fish up until then on Wednesday, but then the fishing got exciting. I use two rods (sometimes that is a hindrance and a pain). When I would get done stripping in one rod and casting out again, I grab the other and start stripping that one in. During that last hour of fishing before the wind started up and I needed to pack up and go home I landed 14 fish and lost or missed at least 10 others. I can't wait to go back for more. That last hour I was fishing a light olive crystal bugger and a simi-seal blood leech. I was on fire! I caught nothing bigger than 20 inches out of the 46 I landed in the 48 hours I was there. One was a 20"brookie and none were under 17". Like always, I lost one that I fought for a while and never saw that seemed to have some good shoulders to it. I caught fish on every fly I tried, but one and it was a simi-seal burgandy.
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