Sitting at 186 flyrod-caught Koi on the year, I figured I may as well go for 200. Spoiler Alert: I didn't make it.
I flyfished 12/17, and it was cold. It supposedly reached 32 degrees, but the line guides on my fly rod were icing closed all afternoon. Water clarity was decent, fish were moving around feeding. Still, it was hard..lots of visible refusals of fish coming to the fly and then moving away quickly. Can't blame them. 😉
I managed 7 Koi and 3 Goldfish. That put me at 193 Koi for the year.
I went again on 12/18. Still similarly cold...but the ponds had partially iced over overnight, and the water had turned muddy. The only pod of larger Koi I found were sitting still on the bottom. They only moved to get away from my fly. 😕
I managed just 2 Koi and 3 Goldfish. That puts me at 195 Koi for the year. I'm pretty sure I'm done trying for them, since the extended forecast is calling for colder weather, which I'm sure will finish icing-over the ponds.
So, I didn't reach 200 for the year, but I did catch 195, which is 95 more than last year. And I really wasn't going for 200 until really late in the year when it seemed a reachable goal. I didn't fish there near as much as I could have, but I didn't want to burn the spot out.
Plenty of really beautiful Koi and Goldfish were caught this year!
Here's most of the ones from these two days:
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