Our house was full of family yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed our dinner outside on a beautiful fall day to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Karen and I love having our home full of family. It is the best of times and makes our hearts full of happiness. We feel very blessed.
Thanksgiving Sunday was another warm day although there was frost on Saturday night! Karen and I loaded up the Gulf station wagon and headed for Sylvan Lake. Sylvan is down just a bit in water volume. We launched on a side road and headed to some weed lines we like to fly fish! We hoped to sight fly fish for lake whitefish along the tules (reeds). We had a great time in just 3-4 feet of water trying not to spook the lake whites and getting them to eat our bloodworms. If you get the presentation right, fly fishing 2.5 to 3 feet below our strike indication; you can watch the whitefish slurp down our bloodworm imitations. We spooked so many but we also had lots of success.
We did catch a few whitefish in deeper water but we enjoyed the sight fishing so much that we went back to that strategy! The water temperature at Sylvan was 54F. It was perfect.
I cannot remember too many days in October where I could fly fish in shorts and a light shirt/sweater. Looks like tomorrow is going to be a repeat in the weather. You know we did not unload the car. I wonder where we will go tomorrow.
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