Beautiful Fall Day

Julie and I had a very successful weekend working on leaves and the cutting back the flower garden. Despite rain for 4 straight days (and snow Friday night), by early afternoon on Saturday, Chautauqua was finally fishable. Here is a picture of a fresh steelhead who put up a good fight.
It was gratifying to walk up to a hole where two guys have been fishing for the better point of the morning and were about to call it quits, so they gave the the hole. Third drift on a green banana, I landed this guy. They agreed to take a photo and decided not to call it a day. I proceeded to catch two more over the next hour, to their zero (even considering I gave them the exact same fly).
Got to love fall.