My Season opener...not so hot

First real day back in the home waters and I got skunked.  Big time.  It was unusually hot, like 94F summery hot (if you didn't get the memo, spring started this week in Chicago) and I so badly wanted it to be awesome.  Not at all.  A single hit.  Weeks of waiting.  Zero.  

The water is still pretty cold, very swift, and fish are tiny and on the bottom.  So I fished with my Rinfu 35sr, a 9' -#3 level line with a 8" bit of red amnesia as a sighter and 3' of 7x tippet with a weighted killer bug on a #14.  I did have a feeling with more practice and a longer line with one more color of a sighter (pink #2.5) it could we a wicked combination.  I still need a bulky fly with a very small hook (#20>) that I can get down thru swift water.

Aaron's Fly Box

Had the chance to send a small fly box out to the West Coast to the TenkaraHero in the Pacific Northwest.   Just a wide range of new tester flies.  We'll be hearing back from him on rod reviews, fly, and trip reviews.  Can't wait.

World Champion Kebari in the center of the box.

I should be called the Tenkara Slacker

I have to fully admit that I am a total slacker at times, or in better terms a total slacker for chunks of time.
I haven't posted here in over 3 months....Slacker!
And you know what is ever worse then just being a total slacker about posting is that I have tied dozens and dozens of different flies and even got the chance to Tenkara in Boulder and I haven't even posted a single pic.   Slacker, I know.   There are multiple new rods in the quiver.  And cool new gear that I've fished and tested.  A new Tenkara net making project (2 nets in the bending stages).  Even work done on having a Tenkara Hero Fly box to come with flies.   
S...lack....er!!!  I know. O'how I know.

So the conclusion I have come up with is NO MORE.  No More Slackin'  No More!
Newton is not only a great cookie but his laws of motion hold true.  Even with temperatures closing in on absolute zero here in the 312, this body is back in motion.

CK