Sweet! No. 2

Other than a brief outing the other day to try out the Meiser Fly rod, I’ve been in bed, sleeping, napping, and feeling miserable getting over a nasty virus.

Woke up today and felt much better, and after feeling up to unpacking my suitcases from the trip to Grande Prairie, I thought I’d go back to the pond off Highway #9 near Orangeville, Ontario and try the Meiser rod out again. Hopefully this time with some fish on the end of the line.

All I can say right now is “Sweeeeet!” After making some adjustments for the handle length of the rod, laying out line was quite nice. Tried a few different fly patterns in the first half hour and caught nothing. Then tied on a white leech sort of thing tied up by Ernie Kalwa and after a few casts off the dock, felt a vicious take.

A couple of minutes later, netted this very nice 16 inch rainbow trout:

Continued to try the leech pattern but no luck on it. Tried a few other beefier type flies and still nothing. After a while, I noticed some fish rising to some hatching chironomids and thought I’d tie on a sort of “Brassie” pattern (not sure of the name of it – but basically a copper body with a beadhead and head of peacock herl).

The rod cast the fly exactly where I wanted, and during the extremely slow stripping of the line, this 17 incher was fooled and brought to the net:

Due to the angle of the camera, it looks smaller than the first one – but it was an inch longer.

Anyhow, really impressed with this Meiser System 2 rod!!