Passing on the Skills

With Melinda home from college for a few weeks, we found the time to visit my favorite local stream. Fishing was slow for this stream, but we found a few fish and Melinda had a chance to greatly improve her skills at casting and getting a dead drift on a stream mostly free of brush and trees and grass that normally make the learning process more difficult.

I had visited the stream the end of June when water was still a little high and had markedly less success than normal (14 fish compared to the usual 70 to 100). That continued this trip, with about the same number to hand, all small. Still a fun morning fishing with my favorite youngest daughter!