Ti's the season right? Yeah, the season of having it all ready to go and just waiting for something to happen. As a guide you want to be out there as much as possible because work is money and the season is never long enough. I was told anything you get before May is the icing and before Memorial weekend is the gravy...I'm getting hungry. On the other hand, the past week has been ridiculously windy with the last two days bringing gusts of 50mph+. That's fricken crazy. So one has to ask, "maybe I'm lucky?" I think I'd rather be working.
I'm still working with the kids from Family Outreach in town and though it is rewarding, it doesn't pay the bills. I'm not sure what happened. I worked more, made more and somehow it's May and I'm even more broke. The saving grace is I have been pre-booked more this year then in the past. If that's any indication of how I will make out this year, I just have to get through this month.
As for the fishing, when the weather does cooperate, the fishing can be off the hook. Water temps are in the mid-40's on the MO so the bugs are coming up. Today is raining and snowing so the blue-winged olives will hatch and linger on the surface for a long time before going airborne. When the wind has been blowing like a mother, reports from some of the guides is that the nymphing has been good. Fish are finally keying in on the blue-wings so it will only keep getting better.
One thing I noticed the last couple years is this thing with blue-winged olive time where there are tons of bugs on the water and even with good conditions, the fish don't really get on them for a week or two before going ballistic. We were out last week on the Mo and had bugs, little wind and clouds and looked for heads for about 3 hours with nothing. In the evening however, fish will come up to midges but for whatever reason, the don't eat the baetis. Well, they're eating them now so from here on out, it should just keep getting better and better.
Keep 'em where they live...
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