Bennett Spring Washout 5-18-2011

Well, this wasn't one of our best trips to Bennett Spring but it was good to get away. Jim, Ray, and I went down Wednesday morning and were optimistic, as the water levels were almost down to normal and pretty good color was returning to the water. However fishing Wednesday afternoon seemed really tough, and we only caught a few fish. The weather was pretty decent. Then when we woke up early Thursday, the storm came in quicker than they thought and it was heavy rain starting around 5:00 in the morning. It let up around 7:15 so Jim and I fished for a while, with still conditions and the fish were biting pretty good (although small rainbows, probably stockers). The lower part of the part stream was fairly muddy but up by the island was only about 20% milkier and not bad, so we fished there. After about 20 minutes, that nasty lightning started getting closer and we high tailed it to the car. When we got back to the room, it started coming down very hard, and even a little bit of hail. They were now predicting rain all day, so we packed it in.I suppose the best flies we used were a dry mayfly, black woolly, soft hackle, bedspread, and of course Jim's ole Glo Balls. Check out a couple of pictures outside our room at Sand Spring Resort (where we had room 51 on the south side of the house). There was a stream between our room and the car, and even saw a board float by!. On the ride home the first 45 minutes, we saw all the creeks flooding. Just what they needed down there after all their recent high water!