Yep it was something else......
I packed a 2,700 cubic inch backpack with all the gear I needed and walked in to join John while he was there. Hung the hammock and he was telling me about the fish he had caught the day before but could not catch a darn thing that day.
I set up my camp with the hammock and got everything set ... After a relaxing evening with the weather getting nastier we hit the sack. That night a storm moved threw and with some hurricane type of rains and winds when we got up in the morning two trees had blown down. Right where I was going to hang the hammock but decided not to.
Well to make it short , after a breakfast and starting to walk out with John telling me the fish were shut down I took the fly rod , assembled it and made a cast which resulted in a Bass on the other end....... Brought it in and released it , took the fly rod apart and told John ... That is how you do it , one cast one fish.
I was laughing all the way while walking out to the truck , especially when I got out of earshot from John that was the luckiest thing I have ever done but a fly rod will get the fish when nothing else will. The fishing Gods were smiling on me that day.
That report from the trip reports........
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John.... In all honesty when we walked down there to look at the lake I noticed that Bass feeding over by the far bank and weeds..... With a fly rod you can put the fly in the weeds or right next to them and move it now and then to really make the fish hit it. Either from hunger or just because he gets pi$$ed off at it sitting there and wigging now and then.
Unlike the other forms of fishing where you make a cast and have to retrieve the plug. Especially a dry fly which stays on the surface of the water where you want it and as long as you want it to.