No videos allowed here, but here are some screengrabs of a mayfly(?) emerging. This was one of those moments when you decide to take a break from fishing, slow down, and just look around. Great day on the US’s most famous trout stream.
For the last 3 years I’ve lived in a big 120ish year old house that has cost an absolute fortune to heat (oil burning furnace) in the winter. Despite taking every measure to reduce our bill we could think of, the oil has added $600-800/mo on top of the rent during the wintertime.
We’ve always had a suspicion that something must be wrong, eg the furnace is messed up, there’s no insulation in the walls, etc. One suspicion we’ve had is that the attic windows have been open. Only issue is that the attic is off limits per our lease, so we never pulled down the hatch to check.
Well our lease is just about up so we all decided to check once and for all. sure enough one of the attic windows has literally no glass, just a screen. the other has the storm window but is otherwise open.
Do we as renters have any recourse for recompensation in this scenario? seems like a landlord should be required in a winters state to have glass on all the windows…
Lately I’ve really hit a plateau with my fishing where, after almost 10 years of fishing my techniques and finesse are pretty dialed (yes, always more to learn), but what I think is really holding me back is not understanding what the fish are doing.
Id like to learn more about where fish are at certain points in the year, what they’re doing, and what to look for in terms of fly selection broadly (nymph, dry, streamer, etc). I’m a longtime river rat beyond fishing, so I‘m pretty good at reading water and the riverbed to find spots that could hold fish comfortably. I often find myself confused when I go out for a day and throw my whole fly box at good spots to no avail. I often can’t even get a fish to take a look when sight fishing.
I’m pretty tired of going out and getting absolutely dead skunked. I can appreciate a beautiful day on the water but getting at least a bite would be nice! Enough trial and error, some book learnin’ should do me good. If anyone has any good resources it would be greatly appreciated!