This is a regional river that I fish late in autumn after the irrigation flows have subsided. This year the two track in was really muddy with sticky clay. Fishing was slower than previous years but I still hooked some reasonable sized fish. Cutthroats predominated this year.
I've fished this river since I was a boy. I generally do better now than I did back then, but I loved fishing it each and every time, fish or no fish.
As we begin to progress into winter, I wanted to review what I was able to accomplish this past fishing season. My medical misadventure last year has focused me on what is important (to me) and what I can let go. This season I fished more new water and did sort of a "bucket list" tour of places I'd wanted to go for years, but hadn't. I'm hoping to do more of that type of fishing this coming year.
