Monday Morning on Schedule
Around here, there’s a lot of talk about scheduling. And I am thinking a lot about what is not on the schedule … yet.
We have yet to have crossed the hundred-degree temperature threshold in North Central Texas. This alone is a very strange thing. It is NOT normal, but as I have said repeatedly, “it is the new normal.” I have stopped to talk to a small number of conventional fishermen at the ramps, and they shake their heads, “… somethin’s not right.”
SCHOOLING SAND BASS
Sand bass are reported in local lakes, but not in the same ways as we have SEEN them in the past. They should already be doing a saltwater-looking blitz thing on top at places like Lake Ray Roberts. But … it’s not happening. Why is that? It’s the mystery wrapped in a riddle – for the second year in a row on Lake Ray Roberts. So the effective pursuit of those little taco-sized fish is slabbing them deep, and that has absolutely zero to do with fly fishing! But it does tell you something is misaligned.
SHALLOW SAND FLATS on TEXOMA
For some reason I stopped getting notifications on my phone from TPWD, specifically the weekly scheduled mostly fake-news fishing reports. Once I tracked it down, I found the usual inflated reports across Texas, but there was one that has always given me a little tingle – when it appears. And here is exactly what it says: “Striped bass fishing is hit and miss but fish are starting to surface on shallow sand flats and in cuts.” Now they’re speaking my language. But, but Texoma is an inland ocean … the surface area of Lake Texoma is 89-thousand acres and has a whopping 580-miles of shoreline. For me? Texoma is one big haystack to go hunting needles. There’s a reason why there are not “fly guides” highly active on the Texoma Ocean. Someday, I will break down the typical guide methods used there by guides to catch Texoma striper on fly. “Exotic” is never a word used to describe that feat. Maybe you know a Texoma fly fishing guide? Feel free to DROP A NAME in the “Comments” below.
WHOLISTIC SURGERY SCHEDULING
In talking to a family member about an impending surgery, merely a few days from now (and certain to effect my output here and on YouTube for weeks), I was told there are better times than others to schedule your surgery! Honestly, I am finding zero evidence of such a claim, and here is what the NIH says about moon phase and medical surgeries and recoveries: “Howling at the Moon?”
In The Mill
I am grinding down a new video on wading sticks/staffs/poles. For fly fishers, it is a gadget or gear with a great purpose for our needs, especially if survival is among those needs. It doesn’t seem to happen every year, but the snot-rock of Beavers Bend at the Lower Mountain Fork has taken more than one fly fisher from a slip and a fall. There are reasons beyond a wading pole, not having one, that make that river especially treacherous, but for now this video is my best effort to completely cover this topic AND not do one of those “TEN BEST, FIVE BEST” … bla bla bla yada yada yada videos. So if you read this, you will know I am giving it one of those titles, “The Three Best Wading Poles,” in order to do one thing; fool the YouTube algorithm into thinking it is another one of those number counting pandering videos. It may fool viewers too – viewers who don’t take time to read this post! Reading is Fun! If you read this far? you will get the spoiler alert now: There is only ONE wading staff I recommend for fly fishers and I will tell you why – in the video! I’ll just say, this video took so much time it definitely became a labor … of love, and no nonsense number pandering or discount gear applied.
Thanks for reading! I will finally post my latest pond bass video this week, probably tomorrow. So be sure to check back in because this one is loaded with fish! In the meantime, have a great week and please keep reading and watching!
