DW fishes almost everyday he can and when you do that you get a real feel for the river. Several of us communicated back and forth through this year DW & I could get a fairly good view of things and that with some other comments prior is what happened. We all know when it rains early it really messes up the run timing. The new wrinkle for us was it rained early and then the river did not brown out in first part November. I had not seen that weather / river combination before and frankly it was about just figuring out what was what. The fish had a real pattern they followed with the tide and numbers. It came right down to timing on the tide and getting the different travel patterns in the river figured out.

There were days I would find them and 4 miles upstream they would shotgun right up past DW not a bite, then days vice a versa. It was a strange year.