I don’t know if you would really call this ice fishing but it was opening day for trout fishing and I took a friend to a spot that I have had great luck with on opening day. But it wasn’t that spot we ended up fishing first.

As I was taking my friend through some rough hiking so I could show him a few places he could fish later in the season with his fly rod. I always bring my fly rod with me opening day. It’s just something about catching a nice brookie on the fly opening day, April 15.

Usually there is still plenty of snow and ice so I was really surprised to see the center of the pond I fish during the summer months had a huge opening in the middle. Now I wasn’t silly enough to venture onto the ice, that would have been suicide. But that didn’t stop me from putting my fly rod together along with a nice deer hair fly.

My friend just laughed at me. He was wondering how I would ever get a trout to shore if I even got a strick.

The sun was high and it felt quite warm. We didn’t even need gloves on.

My first cast was not even close to the open water. My arm needed a little more practice and then I was in the water. Well my fat little trout fly was in the water.

My buddy didn’t even bother to try, not even with his spinning rod, until I that fly hit the water and a trout nailed it. Well he nailed it but it was way too big for the little guys mouth. He was about 6 inches long.

I didn’t catch a trout at that spot but it was a lot of fun watching the little brookies jump for that fly.

I tried a few other flies but nothing. It seems they only wanted to play with a fly they couldn’t eat.

After a half hour of playing around my buddy was begging me to take him to the spot I had intended which was only about another 20 minutes of fighting through the bush. But that story is for another day.

I have a new fishing buddy I just met last year and I plan to take him to this same spot. It’s been a few years since I have been there, hope it hasn’t been over populated with humans now.

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