Hopper Season

I'm heading to Jackson, MS for a month to complete an away-rotation in Orthopaedics. It's a great learning opportunity but, unfortunately, I will be a long ways from my family and home waters.  I thought that last weekend spelled the end of my summer fishing season. However, I now have Saturday free and will hit the road at 4 AM tomorrow, in order to drift through the popular wading water before it is beaten to a froth by the masses.  Chubby Chernobyls work splendidly in the early

morning last Saturday and a hare's ear picked up the fish unwilling to rise to the occasion.  Continuing on the western attractor dry fly theme, I tied a pair of Turk's tarantulas tonight and will put them to the test in about seven hours.

 <--Turk's 

Chubby Chernobyls

An assortment of nymphs to serve as droppers.

Size 20 dries for a sparse hatch of mayflies that stumped me last week, not that I expect to see them again.