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Friday: Ray
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Ronan's report

Well Paul's only been off to Spain for a day, and things are already F'd up. Hell, he might not even be there yet and despite good efforts Will's page hasn't made it through the diablolical maze of the parabackshoot roll cast that is the Sexyloops coding mechanism. So here we go, a little fill in.

By the way, whatever you want to call it, that cast/mend shown by Carlos is no joke. It's easily executed, safer than an aerial mend with a tangle prone fly rig (nymphs) and can put a TON of line where ever you want. In the video, Carlos drops the fly a rod away but rolls another 15' of line upstream of it. Simplified, this is just a roll mend executed right as the flies land. After the delivery stop, slip (shoot) line and drift the rod to your roll cast start position. When the flies land, throw a roll anywhere you want (usually upstream or around an obstacle). Super handy when indicator nymphing, launch the cast upstream letting it lay safely straight out, roll just upstream of it enough to hop the indicator up a little bit. Boom, slack in the line and slack below the indicator for the flies to sink.

I got to do some top water popper action last week at a little reservoir with as many arms as a perfect little snowflake. In the spring, each of these has a little feeder creek but by now the creeks are dry, and the shallow arms warm up and fill with weedbeds and tules. Great little warm water fish territory. The heart of the lake is deeper and has some trout fishing but it's a mill of little aluminum trollers and small ski boats. By noon the planter action is deep and dead. High time for swimming off the rocky points, but it also turns out to be a great time to throw poppers.

The first day, all I had were some foam trout beetles for winter sunk line fishing. They worked ok with a pretty energetic retreive. But to improve, that night I went through my field tying box and surprisingly there was chartruese bucktail, chartruese grizzly hackle and yellow foam! Awesome!! They worked great. As I let the light breeze blow me around, swim trunks and barefeet standing in my canoe, I slapped and twitched that fly all over the place and bass and crappie fought each other to kill it. What a blast!

It made me think back to a day at the golden gate club, super kind and super caster Floyd Dean showed me the bass bug game. It never really clicked until I had these days out forcefully throwing the bug into the little opening in the weeds trying to hit every little spot before the wind blew me away. They weren't monstrous fish but they were great afternoons!

Cheers, Eric

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