The winter trouting season is coming to a close very soon on the 15th of this month, so today I met up with Terry Slaney and Greg Hill for a few flicks at some sea trout in Marysvale.

The weather was great with no wind and cool temperatures. This is still technically winter but as you know we've had a terribly mild winter this year so conditions today were more akin to Spring.

With no success in Marysvale Greg headed back to town while Terry and I headed further up the shore to South River for another flick.

After a similar run of luck in South River, Slaney headed for home with plans to meet up later in the Goulds.

Meanwhile I opted to take a run in the power line road on the Witless Bay line for another flick and a boil up before heading home to Torbay. Here I swapped my fly rod for my trusty spin cast as I didn't see any trout rising for natural or artificial flies.

I put my Georgecraft Axe and Kelly Kettle to work just as it started to peck rain, earlier than forecast of course!

Fresh brewed coffee is a breeze with this simple coffee press.

The rain came with fury so I put away my trouting gear and retreated to the truck for a quick dirty warm up lunch. I decided to forego frying moose sausages in the rain and opted to simply add boiling water to a freeze dried lunch.

It was actually pretty tasty, and certainly easy in these adverse weather conditions.

The rain never did let up so we didn't meet up in the Goulds as planned. All in all, still not a bad way to end what has been a truly strange season of winter trouting.

Cheers, MIKE

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