Got up to Glennie late tuesday night. Hit the hay around 12:30 was up and out the door by 4:30, straight to Comins flats I went. Was nice to be in the river by 5:30am, started off fishing streamers with no luck. I then switched over to dries and worked my way into the islands. I only seen a handful of rises, and only seen a handful of bugs in the air(sulphurs). But I did manage to catch 6 planter brownies and 1 nice rainbow that went about 15 or so inches, definately slow for that spot.
The weather started moving in on me, so I made my way out of the woods and into town, stopped by Linsenman's shop, bought some iso nymphs and bullshitted with him for a few before heading down to McKinley. Fished there for a little while, missed a couple fished and sunk a CH madonna into the side of my face...whoops, past the barb of course. I cut the line and delt with it later. No luck other than the misses at that spot. Headed back to the house after that, went over to the pine later on in the afternoon, caught one little fingerling brookie, and had something of a much larger caliber break me off of 8lb test on an olive sculpin.
After an awesome dinner of my mother's famous chicken paprikas and dumplings, I made my way back into the water. Went downstream from Alcona first, but then left because I was feeling the strong current that evening, took a nice spill down a bank erlier in the day on the pine, and my knee was still hurting pretty bad. Went back upstream, fished til after dark, experienced a small midge hatch, and then the iso's started poppin pretty good, unfortunately no hex's were spotted that evening, few more days yet probably. I missed more fish that night than I have in a long time, probably due to the lack of sleep or whiskey or something. only managed to get in a couple small and one midsize rainbow. My dad actually caught more than me that night, not sure what his totals were, but I know he had better luck than I.
Thursday... I don't really want to talk about Thursday, but the day started with me at an undisclosed location on the AuSable, fished for a while with no luck. Got out of the river quickly due to a recieved text from my mother saying that she was taking grampa back to the hospital. After that I pretty much moped around for a while, then took Joey out fishing on Grampa's pond, we both caught countless bluegill, I once agian missed a couple rainbows, and did catch one nice eater sized walleye, probably about 20 inches. He went back into the pond in hopes that they will start thinning out the gills.
I'll be back up on the west side here in a week, I can't wait. money will be tight, but oh well, I need to get away for more than a day or two. I plan on fishin the Betsie a fair ammount, and shooting up by Andy's for a day and doing some fishing in that area as well.
til next time...good luck, tight lines, don't forget your headlamp and bug spray!
Seen this big girl layin her eggs in the sand near McKinley.
