Recon Trip?

What exactly does a recon fishing trip look like? A day where you hook into a fish at every spot they typically hold, a day where the water is crystal clear and you can see every little nook and cranny of the river bottom. I don’t know if there is a true definition of a recon trip but that was my plan as of Friday morning.

Leading up to Thursday night I was going to skip this weekend because once again you can’t trust weather forecasters. Not a single drop had fallen since the first week of December, which means low and clear water conditions. I had told my fishing partners on Wednesday when we got together to tie fly’s that this weekend was going to be spent with the Wifey doing the HTD (honey to do, completely opposite of LTD) list. So thinking about the HTD list more and more I decided that this weekend could be better spent as a recon trip on the river, you know learn the river and the underlying structures. There it was Friday morning I talked to the guys and the day was planned.

Although knowing that this was going to be a recon trip and not to worry about hooking into fish, that is all I could think about once on the water. And once on the water that is exactly what all the other boats were doing, hooking into fish. No more than five minutes and one run down a set of rapids there were 4 boats all hooking into fish, some had claimed they landed 3, others 4. Between not having our rods setup and the massive amounts of people we decided to push on and hope there were more spots like this, but as most fishing trips turn out there where not any more spots like that one. We saw a lot of water that could be good and a lot of water that could be epic once the flows increase and the water rises a bit.