John’s Big Bow
I just had a note from my old pal, John Beth. Seems he was fishing a local spring creek and located a huge rainbow. IHe eventually got it to take his fly but missed it on the hook up. Later he spotted it with a smaller fish. Of course the smaller fish took the fly, and John was forced to be satisfied with a mere 23 incher, poor boy! He took it on a 6 foot cane rod, size 18 ant, 5X tippet on a silk line, and 108 year old reel. That’s quite a fish, and quite a story.
Why is it that we always catch the small ones?