I had planned to head out and do my normal routine of fishing till noon on weekends. I planned to get in a good session this morning, but unfortunately when the alarm went off I turned it off.
I have never really been a morning person, anyone who knows me can attest to that. I like to stay up until 2 or 3 and sometimes 6 programming. Generally no matter how late I stay up, barring the occasional all nighter, I will always get up to fish. I had been pushing my self pretty hard this week at the office and at home on the computer so I needed a morning to sleep in. Granted in my house hold with my two girls its impossible to sleep past 8:30, but at least I got in more sleep than I have this past week. Despite having my daughters birthday in the afternoon if I could even get 2 or 3 hours on the water I would be happy as it would give me some time to think about tofish and work on my long distance roll casting. I would love to go to my normal spot, but the fishing there has been slow the last two times I went. I kind of got in a groove of always going there, but my last time there I found this:
I thought about returning to my normal spot and I have a pretty good entrance point that is maybe two hundred yards from my favorite carp flat (and through a barbed wire fence). I have never seen deer around my fishing spot, but I suppose I shouldn’t chance anything since the fishing has been slow my last 2 trips there. I just hope all those bow hunters don’t decide to tag some carp when the deer hunting is slow.
I thought today about what I need to work on and what sort of fishing I should do, and decided to challenge my self a little. There is a pretty good spot behind a dam on a local lake that has some nice flow. Hopefully a nice report will come back and add to the lore being developed by others who are redefining the sport. This flow was pretty tough to fish in the summer because unlike the last few years we finally got some good rain in Oklahoma . It looks like it has finally leveled off according to the data tofish has been collecting. I have spooked some nice sized carp in this outflow and I have caught some small large mouth so hopefully the new arsenal of flies and ideas will pay off.
October 13th, 2007
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