The beat goes on...

We took a break from the posting of fly fishing in New Zealand. We'd heard that Edmonton was the coldest place on the planet this past week at -52C. We've sen the heavy snowfall warnings earlier in the month. It sounds like everything about winter we hoped to avoid for a little while, anyway. But, since it has warmed up considerably, here`s back to our fly fishing...
AJ got a good break a while back now. We walked a small stream and came to a small pool. It looked much smaller than what it is, certainly for depth. There was a fish holding and swaying to the subtle seam. It was a short, easy cast, nothing special. The dry rode the current very slowly. The fish turned and came to look. It barely moved a fin but surely rose towards the tandem flies. It took about 7 seconds - pure slow motion, as the fish drift downstream and within 3 feet of AJ`s rod tip before its mouth opened a wide, bright white chomp. The mouth closed, the dry fly indicator never did register, but AJ set anyway. Then the fight was on. The optics confused us both as the fish looked about 4 or 5 pounds in the water but the rod couldn`t budge the fish. Eventually, however, we were about to net the fish. A strong, 10.5 pound beauty, no doubt fattened on the area`s mouse population. A good day and a great moment. :)