The Asian Persuasion

At the last minute i was able to fly my kids out to visit. michelle had to go to idaho to pick up her son at the grandparents and decided to stay the weekend. i had the kids to myself. i wanted to get out at least one day of fly fishing with my kids while they were here but shayne did not want to go, she opted to stay home instead. there is a lake i had wanted to get over and fish since i hadn't been there since last sept., so we made the drive east. the weather was good except for the strong winds. there was some snow but mostly on the dirt road and of cours it was a little chilly. we parked and headed over to the lake. we chose to rig up with sink lines instead of floating since the lake is pretty deep with aconsiderable drop-off near at the shore line. i started with a smaller simi seal type leech with a beadhead, soon i had a nice grayling to hand. jake rigged up a brown conehead bugger but was soon changing as it wasn't doing much. on the side of the lake in which we started we were continually into fish. other then the one grayling everything else were brookies, all of which were in the 12-13" range, except the one phatty i caught that was a hair over 15". we continued to work our way around the lake only hooking a few more fish while landing none. it was a long drive just to fish our way around one lake but it was the best day i have had in a bout a month. it was also wonderful to be able to get out with jake again.