Glad I had them!!

Well I was at Penns on Wednesday and boy was I glad that I had my small box of ants in the back pack that I carry for extra cloths! When I first arrived the fish were taking some Iso. emergers and duns but stopped for a time. As I stood on the bank and the wind blew I could see a lot of fish up and taking something off the top. Out I waded to have a look and guess what- flying ants- #16/18 all black! Even all the chubs were up and feeding so it became a challenge to pick out the trout to cast to. I made quite a few wrong decisions and found myself landing more than a few quite large chubs, oh well they do pull. It was like a typical olive hatch in that the ants would come in spurts which was nice because it gave me time to wade to another section and get in range to cast to what I believed were trout. By 4 PM all was over and the stream became silent and nothing was rising, time for dinner on a rock and just take in the entire experience, low and behold a immature bald eagle flew up stream all the while a wood pecker blasted a tree downstream, makes you happy to be alive.
  Had an experience at the cabin as I was getting ready Doc came down and we talked about Mike M and others that we know, some thing just made him open his SUV up and he found his dog on the floor gasping for air, he had been in the car for over an hour with all the windows up and in direct sun, got him on the ground and I said get some water on him from the hose, Doc began to spray Cinco with the cool water, slowly he began to respond but not after some tense moments. A good lesson for us all to remember, check to see if everyone has gotten out of your car before you leave it.
  We are going to have a good cold front come thru today and turn things much colder then have some rain Sunday maybe a good week ahead to get into some prespawn browns on a few new streamers. Oh buy the way check out "Tie TV"on line to see Daniel Berman tie s new streamer using "ripple ice fibers" he takes some fibers out of the bag and tears them in half then rolls it in his hand and places it over the eye of the hook and moves it to the tie in point thereby making a really nice body that is light and appears full, a very new technique, these guys from Europe have some really good ideas. Check out the eyes he is using also. Tie TV can be found on You Tube, check it out.