Nice conditions but typical slim pickins at Buckhorn. Cloudy and livable weather with breeze coming up in the afternoon mad me unrealistically optimistic that this lake would actually put out more than the standard two fish seen scenario. I was wrong. The upper lake has turned and it looks like most of the water below the Marina has not yet turned . Temps varied from 57 t0 51.5 over the day and the territory. Almost slid up on a mud bar but caught it just in time and just polished the skeg a little.
Beaver coats need to come back in style, there's more "plume in that river than stars in the sky" to steal an inexact quote from Charlton Heston's character in "Mountain Men". One of the buggers chose to go from hole to the water by smashing through a dead tree on his way to the drink, and did it right as I fished by, and it made my heart just about jump out. Later a pair decided they had to get to the water while I fished by also, coming out of their hole at the top of a big rock on the left bank, and running and skidding in the gravel along side of the rock on their way to the water, then proceeding to swim through the snag I was fishing. I have absolutely no love for the buggers and anyway they could be got rid of would be a good way. They are truly pests.
Beaver coats need to come back in style, there's more "plume in that river than stars in the sky" to steal an inexact quote from Charlton Heston's character in "Mountain Men". One of the buggers chose to go from hole to the water by smashing through a dead tree on his way to the drink, and did it right as I fished by, and it made my heart just about jump out. Later a pair decided they had to get to the water while I fished by also, coming out of their hole at the top of a big rock on the left bank, and running and skidding in the gravel along side of the rock on their way to the water, then proceeding to swim through the snag I was fishing. I have absolutely no love for the buggers and anyway they could be got rid of would be a good way. They are truly pests.
