Phone etiquette for a chilly spring

Bow River - April 14 2011 Photo: Bow River Shuttles

“Fly fishing’s off season doesn’t represent the end of anything as much as it does a shift; instead of talking on the river, your little group of fly fishermen hold those same conversations on the phone. And as the winter slowly closes out, those phone calls turn to spring.

Naturally, there’s an unspoken etiquette when discussing the upcoming fly fishing season – especially when that season involves a record 170% of normal snowpack and a forecast for a cooler-than-normal spring.

First, you don’t come right out and admit the obvious: You’re screwed.

That’s considered poor form.”

Kind of sounds like our not-yet-arrived spring along the Bow River, doesn’t it?

Actually, it describes the current conditions in Northern California. It comes from yesterday’s Trout Underground post titled “An Underground Primer on Phone Etiquette For Fly Fishermen”