Re: Cedar float Saturday: one of THOSE days

[Roger]

Isn't there an advertisment on TV like this?   Loss of beer .... $2.00 Loss of oar ... $50.00 Loss of gear ... $40.00 A day spent on the water doing something you love...priceless!   Seriously, I have had days where absolutely nothing has gone right....I left my reels home, a rod broke, or the pump to blow up the boat didn't work, etc., etc.  But at the end of the day I could still marvel in the beauty of the surroundings, regardless of the outcome of the trip.   As a side note...had to travel to eastern WA over the weekend. Glad I wasn't fighting the wind, trying to fish, in the area from Easton to Vantage. I saw an F350 pulling a pretty large trailer get moved over one whole lane by a gust of wind coming up the hill westbound out of Vantage. It was nasty.   Roger   Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Speaker To: waflyfishers@waflyfishers.com Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: Cedar float Saturday: one of THOSE days I floated the Cedar with a buddy from work from Maple Valley River Park to just past Cedar Grove Rd. Saturday from about 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.  It was really one of those days.  When I was setting up my boat my beverage holder got all screwed up and I had to pull it off for the trip � this resulted later in a beer pouring out from its position in my saddlebag zipper.  About � mile into the float I caught an oar in a rocky section and broke it in half at the weld which made the rest of the float a real pain, paddling with a single oar � the areas I would call tricky with two oars became downright difficult.  I think the workout from paddling with the single was double or triple normal rowing.  Add to this slow fishing (8 � 10 bows / 8 � 10 whitefish), and the loss of eight double-nymph rigs, and it amounted to a day of frustration.  The worst rig loss:  nearly the whole leader got wrapped up on a solid branch and the whole thing came off when I tried to break it free � full leader, indicator, splits and two flies.   It�s hard to say if the fishing was off, or if I was just off, but I think it was a combination of the two and there was certainly more evidence of the latter.  At least right at the end I finally landed a decent bow of 14� that put up a hellacious fight nearly running my line around a large boulder before I managed to turn its head as it was turning the corner.  The other saving grace of the day was a pair of 11� cutts from the same run � they�re so infrequent in the Cedar that I really enjoy seeing them.   Now it�s back to the vise to replace my 16 lost flies.  What a day, what a day.   - tight lines- Jim No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.9 - Release Date: 6/11/2005

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