Idle Hands, Bigger Fish
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One Season of Lessons from the “Oni” Kebari by Jonathan Antunez
They say that the Devil will find work for idle hands to do. Whatever demon possessed me to tie up a few Oni Kebari this past winter, had plans to hook me up all season on some much bigger fish than I was used to. It was very late Spring 2019 in the Colorado Front Range. The winter had blessed Colorado with an unusually large snowpack and all the tail-water rivers were still bursting at the seams with this abundance of water. It’s a time of year I normally skip fishing. However, after a month of abstinence and no end in sight, it didn’t take much to persuade me when invited by a
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good friend to fish on the Big Thompson River. I brought my Oni kebari, just in case. Lesson 1: Runoff and Big Bugs Runoff offers a very unique opportunity in trout fishing. It removes at least 80% of the river from your fish finding equation. The center flow is