I
decided to hit up some warm water fish before heading back to the cold rivers
of the Rockies in Montana. So two
friends and I loaded up the truck and headed to my cabin in Sylvania, Georgia
for 24 hours of fishing for bass on the fly. As we drove onto the property it became clear that that
there was some prescribed burning going on around the 400 acre piece of
land.
At
first I thought we were going to have to tuck our tails and run but as we
arrived at the cabin the smoke seemed to be in the trees and fields surrounding
us. We quickly rigged our rods and
started chucking flies in the water.
Across the pond the burn was raging which made for an amazing background
while flyfishing for largemouth bass.
We
caught fish throughout the afternoon and into the dark night. Once it was dark we decided to fish from
the canoe. Random bits of smoke
would roll in completely eliminating all visibility. Casting into the smoke cloud and pulling out fish is one of
the coolest memories I have fly fishing and it is something I will never
forget.
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