Granny and I are down here in Phoenix, Arizona visiting friends Steve and Lisa Berry. As you learned the past couple blogs we’re down here mainly to fly fish for urban carp and bass. But we have about a week so today, being its Lisa’s day off, we opted to join some of their friends, Rodrigo and Laura, for a casual day of hiking the Dreamy Draw Loop and feasting on some of the Berry’s home cooking.
Although the hike was beautiful, it was the Berry’s culinary skills that took the crown. Steve smoked up several racks of delicious ribs and Lisa added in some zesty mac & cheese. We had a spread and sipped some good wine. It was just one of those days that you enjoy when you’re on vacation.
The fish weren’t entirely unmolested however. There was a one hour window from 4-5 PM and I snuck to the neighborhood canal minutes away from the Berry’s house. I saw some HUGE grass carp but all were hugging the bottom and none of my flies were of interest to them. All I did was spook them.
Hugging bottom isn’t the behavior you need for catching grassies on fly. You really need them to be feeding on top. But it seems we have cold water flushing through from last week’s Arizona mountain snows. We’ll take this week slow and easy and hopefully the forecasted warmer temperatures will bring the carp bite on. Stay tuned for a full day of angling tomorrow!
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