We went out after breakfast, rigged to go down ten feet or so. Richard caught and released an 18 inch rainbow, perhaps the biggest fish he had ever caught at Delaney. The girth was especially impressive, a big fat rainbow. Then Marianne caught a good fish, 15 inches or so. Richard kept fishing as the day went on, and caught and released a total of three big trout, including one at twilight.
It was kind of a relaxed day, more or less focused on fishing. The weather was sunny and beautiful, with minimal mosquitoes. Very nice.
Marianne had a catch of another type, a rod and reel left on the bank. No one came back to claim it; we left a note with a phone number in case they eventually come back. Marianne thinks that it was a couple of young men. The rod was on the ground, with the line spread out, kind of strange. Marianne was thinking about writing a story about this rod and the frustrated bank flyfisherman, who tangled his rig and threw it away in disgust, and then put rocks in his pockets and walked out into the lake, a la Virginia Wolff. We looked up the rod and reel; the rod is worth $500, and the reel is a collectible.
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