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Sero had a wonderful idea for a pool to try out after these big rains (which were needed, hallelujah!), we hadn't been in a while, and neither of us were sure of the bugs that'd be about.... that wouldn't be stopping us 
We meet up at the pool, sero arrives while I'm talking to a group of three bait guys, they're hauling a bucket of 15 fish... I ask what they were using, the guy looks at me like I have 3 heads "worms of course.......... ohhhhh you're fly fishin', ain't much worms in fly fishing!". Almost forgot, there was one other guy who left the pool before these guys while I was tying on a new leader... He saw the fly rod and asked, "Fly fishing, you like that? Looks tough" but, he asked it with the same tone as if asking "...Cow tongue, you like that? Doesn't look very tender". I just said "Ahh, it's not as tough as you'd think, I love it!". There's some mystique with fly fishing for people I think, I mean there was to me before I started. Heck, this is silly, but... When I was a kid, we had a stream running through our backyard, actually some really nice features of this stream nearby our house that attracted fishermen, and I'd see fly fisherman now and then, and when I'd see them false cast I didn't know what the purpose of it was, and I thought the fish would jump out of the water and take the fly out of mid-air as if it were buzzing around!
One interesting thing about the pool which sero pointed out, and I somehow didn't even think twice about was... Some crafty (or sneaky, i guess whatever your perspective is on it) fisherman decided to make some "improvements" to the pool, they piled up some rocks to kind of squeeze a flow of water to be a little tighter and faster, and also made a kind of dam with a dead tree across the tail of the pool.
I beat sero down to the pool by a few minutes, and got to get in a few casts before sero gears up. Catch a little guy on a "danger baby ", which was dropped below a "goddard caddis " (...and I just realized I forgot to tie the antennae on it, whoops). Sero comes down with a sulfer already rigged up and says "might as well try it", 1-2-3 right off the bat
How did we make the decisions on what flies to use you ask.... Well... Sero already had that sulfer on, and I just put caddis on because it always seems caddis is good at this pool.... The one gauge we didn't have to help us choose our flies was... A hatch! We didn't see a bug the whole day. There were more horse flies than midges (and we only saw midges over dry land), and just a few moths and a yellow jacket.
Soon enough we've got an audience slightly bigger than a high-numbered-cable-channel-fishing-show watching the infamous "Proto & Sero Fishing Hour". A couple kids are trying to push a dog in the pool... The dog was in luck (as were sero and I), it's one huuuuuuge dog, it was like two kids trying to push around Andre the Giant. Speaking of dogs, Daisy was tagging along and yet again proves to be the most chill fishing dog, she's awesome -- almost like a "cheshire dog" if-you-will... Disappearing and reappearing elsewhere, teleporting herself into locations where she wouldn't spook a fish.
It seemed the fish were feeding in waves.... It'd be hot for a couple minutes, we'd be seeing flashes an occasional riser and we'd be doing alright. Then it would test our patience, and i'd get to really feel the sun burning the crap out of my neck
Sero did a bunch of experimenting with patterns, I think he used 7 or more patterns that were all able to catch fish.
We did have some amazing moments.... To bring the story back around, you know how I was saying I used to think as a kid "the fish would take the fly in midair while false casting", sero got about as close to that as humanly possible... While lifting his line to back cast a little bugger jumped right out of the water and did actually take a dry in mid air!! I also had a lucky double, I took two fish at once, one on the dry and one on the dropper, hahah, it was entertaining. I'm seeing the one fish I thought I caught and I'm like "why the hell is that other fish chasing my fish??? ....oh! there's two on there!". Sero tried to snap a photo, but... It's hard enough to manage getting two fish off of your rig without having to get them into a picture perfect position
Our action had started to slow down, due in part to the pressure we had exerted on the pool... Sero then gets the idea of the day....
"You know what they might rise for? A beetle, gotta try a beetle"
...And we were able to bring the action back a bit I tried a "gum beetle" for a little bit, got one take, and lost the guy while playing him... It was kind of a pain to see it in the water, so out of frusteration I tossed on a "turck's tarantula" (pretty much the biggest dry in my box), got one guy in it, that brownie smasssshed that turcks, definitely funny, it's a huge fly. Sero kept up with his beetle after trying some tiny ants, and was doing alright. He had a sweet beetle on there, I really like it, gonna hafta try to imitate it.
After one of the last "waves" of activity we had.... I was feeling a little tired and sunburnt, and decided to call it a day. Sero and I chat for a bit, watch one guy head down to the pool, and five minutes later, come right back to his car and take off! Sero decides to hit up another pool down the road, and I headed "back to the ranch".
I go grocery shopping, park on the street at my place, drop all the stuff off at the house, and go back outside to move my car.... I look up and what do I see? Sero's van!!!!! He's on his way to see his brother, pulls over and we chat for a bit. He says...
"Doug, you're just not going to believe this" At that next pool, sero had scored another 6 fish in 6 casts on that beetle, daaaaaamn! What a great call on that beetle, perfect day for a terrestrial when we hadn't seen a single bug come off the water.
We meet up at the pool, sero arrives while I'm talking to a group of three bait guys, they're hauling a bucket of 15 fish... I ask what they were using, the guy looks at me like I have 3 heads "worms of course.......... ohhhhh you're fly fishin', ain't much worms in fly fishing!". Almost forgot, there was one other guy who left the pool before these guys while I was tying on a new leader... He saw the fly rod and asked, "Fly fishing, you like that? Looks tough" but, he asked it with the same tone as if asking "...Cow tongue, you like that? Doesn't look very tender". I just said "Ahh, it's not as tough as you'd think, I love it!". There's some mystique with fly fishing for people I think, I mean there was to me before I started. Heck, this is silly, but... When I was a kid, we had a stream running through our backyard, actually some really nice features of this stream nearby our house that attracted fishermen, and I'd see fly fisherman now and then, and when I'd see them false cast I didn't know what the purpose of it was, and I thought the fish would jump out of the water and take the fly out of mid-air as if it were buzzing around!
One interesting thing about the pool which sero pointed out, and I somehow didn't even think twice about was... Some crafty (or sneaky, i guess whatever your perspective is on it) fisherman decided to make some "improvements" to the pool, they piled up some rocks to kind of squeeze a flow of water to be a little tighter and faster, and also made a kind of dam with a dead tree across the tail of the pool.
I beat sero down to the pool by a few minutes, and got to get in a few casts before sero gears up. Catch a little guy on a "danger baby ", which was dropped below a "goddard caddis " (...and I just realized I forgot to tie the antennae on it, whoops). Sero comes down with a sulfer already rigged up and says "might as well try it", 1-2-3 right off the bat
How did we make the decisions on what flies to use you ask.... Well... Sero already had that sulfer on, and I just put caddis on because it always seems caddis is good at this pool.... The one gauge we didn't have to help us choose our flies was... A hatch! We didn't see a bug the whole day. There were more horse flies than midges (and we only saw midges over dry land), and just a few moths and a yellow jacket.
Soon enough we've got an audience slightly bigger than a high-numbered-cable-channel-fishing-show watching the infamous "Proto & Sero Fishing Hour". A couple kids are trying to push a dog in the pool... The dog was in luck (as were sero and I), it's one huuuuuuge dog, it was like two kids trying to push around Andre the Giant. Speaking of dogs, Daisy was tagging along and yet again proves to be the most chill fishing dog, she's awesome -- almost like a "cheshire dog" if-you-will... Disappearing and reappearing elsewhere, teleporting herself into locations where she wouldn't spook a fish.
It seemed the fish were feeding in waves.... It'd be hot for a couple minutes, we'd be seeing flashes an occasional riser and we'd be doing alright. Then it would test our patience, and i'd get to really feel the sun burning the crap out of my neck
Sero did a bunch of experimenting with patterns, I think he used 7 or more patterns that were all able to catch fish.We did have some amazing moments.... To bring the story back around, you know how I was saying I used to think as a kid "the fish would take the fly in midair while false casting", sero got about as close to that as humanly possible... While lifting his line to back cast a little bugger jumped right out of the water and did actually take a dry in mid air!! I also had a lucky double, I took two fish at once, one on the dry and one on the dropper, hahah, it was entertaining. I'm seeing the one fish I thought I caught and I'm like "why the hell is that other fish chasing my fish??? ....oh! there's two on there!". Sero tried to snap a photo, but... It's hard enough to manage getting two fish off of your rig without having to get them into a picture perfect position
Our action had started to slow down, due in part to the pressure we had exerted on the pool... Sero then gets the idea of the day....
"You know what they might rise for? A beetle, gotta try a beetle"
...And we were able to bring the action back a bit
I tried a "gum beetle" for a little bit, got one take, and lost the guy while playing him... It was kind of a pain to see it in the water, so out of frusteration I tossed on a "turck's tarantula" (pretty much the biggest dry in my box), got one guy in it, that brownie smasssshed that turcks, definitely funny, it's a huge fly. Sero kept up with his beetle after trying some tiny ants, and was doing alright. He had a sweet beetle on there, I really like it, gonna hafta try to imitate it.After one of the last "waves" of activity we had.... I was feeling a little tired and sunburnt, and decided to call it a day. Sero and I chat for a bit, watch one guy head down to the pool, and five minutes later, come right back to his car and take off! Sero decides to hit up another pool down the road, and I headed "back to the ranch".
I go grocery shopping, park on the street at my place, drop all the stuff off at the house, and go back outside to move my car.... I look up and what do I see? Sero's van!!!!! He's on his way to see his brother, pulls over and we chat for a bit. He says...
"Doug, you're just not going to believe this"
At that next pool, sero had scored another 6 fish in 6 casts on that beetle, daaaaaamn! What a great call on that beetle, perfect day for a terrestrial when we hadn't seen a single bug come off the water.
...I`ll be playing that scene back over and over in my mind for awhile....
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