River Journal Nov. 20,2018

Today’s river adventure was on foot. I arrived at a foggy river, very ghostly. I brought Ghost shrimps and Steelybeads. It’s been a long time since I hiked a trail alone. It felt like someone was behind me and the fog didn’t help. Binge watching the walking dead on Netflix didn’t help either.I reached the first hole and as I entered the river I thought I saw a steelhead. Real close so after 7 drifts and it didn’t move I stepped in to look closer at those rocks and those rocks took off. Dam. The good thing is I spotted more. I started tossing out Ghost Shrimp only and no luck. Then I went to 8 mm beads and nothing. Then I moved to ghost shrimps with an 8mm bead sliding freely on the ghost shrimp and nothing. Last I put on the 10mm bead sliding freely resting on the ghost shrimps and nothing. After an hour I decided to move up the river. Slowly approached every new fishing hole the same way and nothing. Frustrated I decided to go back to the first hole and this time I pegged the 10mm bead 1 inch above the ghost shrimp. I don’t know why it worked but bang three steel heads on and landed. Kept my two and went home with a smile. Next outing the bead will be pegged 1 inch above the Ghost shrimp. Who’s to know the menu may change.