The author holds his hard-earned musky. “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” –Samuel Johnson.
Photo by Brett Meany
Musky Flies
Hours into the float already, we’d chucked green and yellow, chartreuse and pink, and black and purple—some with big reflective eyes and others with barred feathers that enticingly slip and slide behind the body of the fly. Nothing was working. Brett, my musky copilot, and I weren’t moving fish like I thought we would, considering the cold mornings that fall had been delivering.
