The snow’s falling at Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters, and while the fluffy white stuff will bring curses in February, today it makes everything look shiny, clean and new.
Even the Trout Underground/Man Cave’s Hydro Testing Facility loses its greenish, slimy appearance under the influence of the fluffy white stuff:
- Everything looks better after the first snowfall…
Needless to say, today would be the perfect day to chase BWO hatches on the river, though I’m sidelined with domestic chores (at least steam cleaning a carpet involves a power tool).
I hate missing a snowy day on the water; even if you don’t see a bug or catch a trout, it’s heartbreakingly beautiful (that shiny clean thing again).
And yes, you very often do catch trout, typically on #20 BWO dries or emergers, which – for a Modern Traditionalist Intemperate Dry Fly Partisan – is pretty close to heaven on a stick (a big stick).
Tomorrow, however, may be a different story. Should the planets align and I find myself on the river, you’ll hear it second.
Meanwhile, the Underground’s not deaf to the pleas of the Wally the Wonderdog partisans, who have seen neither hide nor hair of the Magnificent Sausage Beast for some time. Consider this a Wally Snow Day. (He certainly has; he runs around in the stuff like it was money, chasing the falling snowflakes to the ground.)
- The Wonderdog loves the snow, but then, he doesn’t have to plow it…
See you at the Winter Wonderland, Tom Chandler.
