Puzzling

I’ve written about this before and it still puzzles me. On Monday I guided a husband and wife on a trout fishing trip. We waded in some of the small mid coast rivers fishing after the first rain in a while that had really raised water levels. I expected that the fishing would be slow but not lopsided. Both husband and wife were adequate fly casters and clearly had a pretty good understanding of where the fish should be. The woman is the only one that caught fish all day. Not just one but a decent number of fish.

After mid-morning it became clear that the catching was not balanced. So I had the husband fishing ahead in the pools using the exact same fly only to have his wife catch fish he had just fished over! How does that happen? Try as I might I simply could not balance the catch out. One of the things about fishing that I do not understand and apparently cannot fix.