The stories in my head are actually prettty good. Quite involved. Descriptive. Sentimental. Reflecting on the coming of fall, end of summer, desperation of anglers to take advantage of the remaining days, things I find while I'm out there. And on and on and on.

And that's where they're going to have to stay till some other day. Just don't have the time to jot them down.

Did get out the fly rod for this venture. Black and pearl clouser equals pearl twister and jig. Fish them identically. So I did. This isn't fishing science and the logic is obvious to me. Maybe not so to fly rodders. Lost count after 10 hits because one stretch got a little nuts with hits. Don't think it went over 20 hits.

But I did land 5 of them. The hook on this clouser is smaller than the smallest jig hook I like to use. Got to blame something.

Nice Ken, I want to get back out there at least one more time this year. Maybe the weekend after the Monster Quest.

I fished Saw wee kee on Saturday morning September 19 and hooked 4 fish, landing 2. I always flyfish the river. I used white streamers, drifting the streamer in the current breaks. The biggest bass was 17 inches and weighed almost 3 pounds. Sorry, no pictures, as it is difficult to take photos when I'm fishing by myself. I did notice, however, numerous ares to site cast for carp. These are found in the slack waters and the shallow areas. I'm going to return to attempt to accomplish this, because carp on a fly rod are a blast. This is my first post. Please do not cut me off!

flyfisher wrote:This is my first post. Please do not cut me off!

Now, why would I do that? Unless I did inadvertantly, I've had to do some house cleaning recently and I tend to screw things up.

My friend Chuck Roberts just sent an email. Ran into him on Friday evening at saw wee kee. He was canoeing down stream to Yorkville and I was heading up stream. He pretty much always uses a fly rod. He was sight fishing for carp using a yellow popper. He sent the following picture. He's obviously a much better fly rodder than photographer. He said it took him 5 minutes to land it.

Good luck on your adventure.