Article: Big mouth angers the fish gods

Honest, it was an innocent remark. If I'd known it was going to anger the fishing gods, I'd have kept my big mouth shut. I didn't, however... Gene and I had taken advantage of last weekend's warm spell by hauling our cabin-fevered carcasses to McDowell County's Elkhorn Creek. We figured - correctly, as it turned out - that the unseasonable temperatures would trigger insect hatches and send the trout on a feeding spree.

I guessed - again, correctly - that Blue-Winged Olive mayflies would be the most likely bugs to hatch, so I began fishing with a No. 18 Olive Parachute dry fly.

Gene, unconvinced that trout would rise to a floating fly this early in the season, clinch-knotted a tiny ...

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