Weather blues...

Well, our trip to the Isar turned out to be a bummer... Basically we were rained out.

The heavy rain period two weeks before our trip turned the Isar into a milky blue soup. Even though the water levels dropped considerably during the week before we left, the visibility of the river was far from ideal.

The first day of the trip was pretty nice and sunny. Yet the visibility of less than 10 inches made fishing very difficult.
The second day the blue sky was exchanged for dark grey clouds. After a few hours in the morning the clouds opened their doors and the wind picked up seriously making fishing further impossible. The additional rain wiped out any hope we still had for the river to clear up.

We decided to head back home after another cloudy day. Andy who arranged the fishing for us mailed me later that once the water in the lake that feeds the Isar gets milky, it can take up to 2-3 weeks to clear up.

How frustrating to know that the following days will be quite sunny and nice!

Well, we'll definitely try this river again. Hopefully we'll have picture perfect conditions. The nice grayling I caught the first day probably tells me there is more to come.