Water clarity was still decent this far into the summer.
The hatch was slow in getting started but the midges finally made a showing accompanied by another hatch of flies known by the latin taxonomic name of: "Tiny little white flies".
We fished well into the evening and the fish started to show themselves at around 10:45. We pounded through an extra 45 minutes on the shift catching a few (but seemingly larger) whities.
Before heading home we turned on our headlamps and investigated a ruckus in the branches of a low hanging willow on the shore behind us. We found a female mallard and her kids hanging around and also a critter that I at first thought was an otter until we saw it shuttling branches around and discerned it to be a beaver. Where I come from, a beaver will slap it's tail hard on the water's surface before diving if it is startled or feels threatened. This beaver apparently took our close proximity and blinding headlamps in stride and kept on about it's business.
***Update 6/14
EB emailed me today with a news article and video of a guy who got a little too close to a beaver while filming it. Long story short, the beaver charged the guy (this all happened on dry land) bit him in the leg, and the guy bled out and died.
I'm pretty sure EB was suggesting that we give the critter a wider berth tomorrow night...
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| EB working the night shift #1 |
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| EB working the night shift #2 |
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