Beautiful summer day on the lake, a bit sun burned and bit up but it was a great day.
I taught my son how to cast single hand for sunfish and bass on my 5 wt St. Croix and I landed one nice big bluegill and let it go. Only fish landed today. My brother in law caught a limit of sunfish, crappies and six bass in the morning but the rest of the day was dead, when sunfish don't bite it's slow. Too sunny, windy and hot. The kid did good he had some hits but nothing landed. He loved single hand casting too, he fished all day.
Saw two muskies jump at night fall within Spey range but no follows, had something attack my streamer once but had some slack after the tug and lost it.
Overall very impressed with my skagit head, long casts all day shot 60 feet of running line a number of times (I measured) I'm using a 24 foot head, 10 foot sink tip and 12 foot leader and a few bounced back at that range, going to have to say that I could never single hand cast those large streamers with a sink tip all day that far. 106 feet
There is no way and skagit is way easier on the body, not even sore, even my new piercing doesn't hurt.
When I don't think about the cast and not try hard, the line just flies and feels right, when I try to throw boomers, they die off in the 60-80 foot range and yes when I hooked myself I was trying hard, I over rotated and the line came off bad, paid the price for that bad cast.