I looked at the National Weather Service yesterday and it said it might rain and then snow--wind out of the west 5-9 mph changing from the north...F-off NWS. You are no more accurate at predicting the weather than you would be at writing horoscopes.
We put in at Pelican at about nine and the skies were clear--temps were around 50. By 10:20, the winds did shift...a steady 40 mph at least with white caps across the entire river. We couldn't move downstream and with us about a mile and a half from Pelican, we couldn't get back upstream either.
The thing about the Cascade run is that you don't normally do it with a headwind. However, with the flows the way they are, you can do it because there's enough current now in the soft, laky spots as long as it's NOT BLOWING 40!
We parked the boat and hunkered down on an island. Once you got behind the willows, it actually was pretty nice. We sat there for about an hour or so and ate lunch, hoping the front would move through and the wind settles down. It felt like we were getting a little break so we hopped back into the boat and pushed downstream to a good nymphing run.
I held the boat sideways, pulling against the wind--trying to get whatever drift we could. One of my guys hooked up and the little brown came flying into the boat. We fished on...another one and another and then the wind did seem to let up a little so we kept fishing and before you knew it, we had a pretty decent day going.
At about 2 o'clock the bugs started popping and although we didn't see enough heads to go dry, we just started pummeling fish on nymphs. There were tons of BWO's and March browns and although it was still what I would call "breezy," the fish were happy and my dudes were stroking them. It just goes to show, keep your head up and keep on keeping on and things on the Mo eventually work out.
Keep 'em where they live...
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