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I know I go on about how delightful this time of year is without much for proof. For proof here is a little video of less than a minute casting flies to feeding bass on a local pond. I know you did not ask but as an aside I have only seen bass push bait to the surface a few times in a long career and this was one of them. I could see the fish feeding from a quarter mile away. Yes it was almost a fish on every cast for almost an hour. Most were small but a few were well over two pounds. All of them gave a decent showing on the fly rod.

September is here, and it feels like the season is gently tapering down. Just last week, I took a family with kids out for what I expect will be the last family fishing trip of the season, and now the kids life vests are stowed away until next summer. My schedule, which has been jam-packed for months, is finally starting to show some openings.

Sorry no pictures it all happened too fast.

Earlier this summer I told the story of an eagle picking up a surface lure that a young client was using. My season of odd bird stories is nearly complete after an osprey grabbed a bait that a young client was fishing the other day.