FRIDAY

........................ChiChi and I were at the fishing hole by 11am and found it to be a bit cool. I was happy to find a spare jacket crumpled up in the trunk of the car. There were no fish caught but there was a lot of sign that they are in there. A sea otter came by at one point with a mouthful of fish and that is very rare except when there are a lot of fish available for them to follow so far from salt water. For some reason the fish are not striking at anything. It is almost scary, have they become genetically educated to stay away from fishing lures? It makes some sense because the fish who get caught do not reproduce. Fish who do not chase artificial lures are the ones who create fish who do not chase artificial lures? !! Who'd of thunk it? I will try again tomorrow but it is disconcerting to see them rolling in the water and not going after perfectly good fishing lures that have worked very well in the past. I even cast small spinners right over the same spot one of them was rolling in. No takers. Sounds like science fiction to me. We left after five hours of this. I suppose we will return tomorrow, with a heavier jacket too.