Rainy and Cool?

If the folks at the weather office are right, we're going to have a cool rainy weekend, starting with thunderstorms on Friday. Now, I don't mind fishing in the rain, but I draw the line at thunder.

I'm reminded of a hot afternoon on the Nature Conservancy section of Silver Creek in Idaho. There was little doing in the heat. An occasional trout was gobbling an adult damsel fly. Very occasional. The storm came upon me very quickly. OK, maybe it wasn't that quick. You see, when the clouds covered the sun, I started to move some trout, so I wasn't exactly rushing off the stream. I climbed up the bank when the first drops fell. I was a ten minute walk from the car, and suddenly I was in the middle of a fierce thunderstorm, lightning flashing all around me. There was no place to hide and no place to go, so I threw my rod away and hunkered down low and took the storm. It lasted only 20 minutes, and in a way it was very beautiful, but it was also very scary.

Anyway, a little rain is fine, and as long as there is no lightning and as long as the streams aren't blown out, I plan on giving it a go.