Busy Week

I fished a couple days last week. Monday I slipped out at lunch to try to hook a carp on a fly rod, but despite the fact that there were lots of carp cruising, none of the carp seemed interested in feeding.

Tuesday evening I fished the river and it was going off. Lots of bugs in the air and the fish were eating on the surface like crazy. I have never caught so many trout in one evening, but I didn't take a picture of a single fish. I caught one pretty good one, but like a Jackalope, it slipped out of my hands right as I was posing for a picture. None of the other fish were really of a size that would get you excited to take pictures. The deer pictured above was my only photo from that evening. They always seem really red this time of year on the California side.

I got some good running in this week, but still nothing longer than an hour. It is now officially hot, so I have to stay really close to good water for the dogs.

Stopping at one point to empty some sand out of my shoe I was surprised to be standing on a gazillion tiny little ants. I had to do the quick one foot shuffle to keep them off me while I put my shoe back on. I was glad that nobody was around to see me because I am sure that I looked like a goofball.

As much as I try to keep the dogs away from quail this time of year, there is really no stopping them. They are pointing dogs and pointing is what they do. I have a lot of control of my dogs though, so it is not a big deal. I just tell them to "leave it", verbally pull them off point, and we are off and running again. It isn't their first rodeo, and they know full well the difference between just being out running, and hunting, as they do a plenty of both.

This is where I run the dogs when it is really hot, like it is now. Because there is cold deep water I can run them at temperatures far higher then I normally would. I usually just make a point to stop every mile so that they can get fully submerged. The "Ditch Trail" is a really popular place to run, and fortunately 99% of the people using the trail are nice people with friendly dogs.

Other than that it has just been packing up and getting ready to move. Next weekend my wife and I are in California for NASCAR, then the fallowing weekend we are moving. It is going to be a very busy next few weeks.

Jay Kincaid