It's been quite awhile. In the time since my last post, I've been at school. I just recently finished my freshman year at the University of Notre Dame. So far, it has been a fantastic whirlwind of emotions and catastrophes. We are planning on returning to campus in the fall, but actual plans seem to hinge on the school administration's decisions.
Over the winter, I went steelhead fishing numerous times with the fishing club. We have a used Clackacraft drift boat we bought secondhand off a fishing guide a number of years back. We fished the Dowagiac twice in December and January with little luck besides one of the guys nailing this cool brown on a spinner.
The Dowagiac is a pretty sketchy river to row a drift boat on and we've gotten into a number of hairy situations. I've had to hop out and pull the boat upstream out of laydowns more than once. It's been quite the experience.Hopefully steelhead fishing on this river will be better in the spring and Fall this year, assuming we're allowed to make the short drive to go fish it.
I've been fishing steelhead with a new set-up. A retired lawyer brought a 9'6" 7 weight Sage SLT into the fly shop I work at and told Mike to find someone who'd use it. It's a fantastic rod for swinging larger steelhead flies and drifting nymphs.
I've done quite a bit of fishing this year, so expect more updates. Hopefully I'll have some free time to write them right now and then post daily after today.
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