Cloudy Bugs and Northern Lights

Is it the cloud cover or the water temperature? Do more bugs hatch in inclement weather or do they get stuck on the water longer? The questions are always posed and no one has an answer.  Don't know if you don't go though. 

Wade fishing's dream

After a scheduled maintenance morning in the big city, I spend the first afternoon exploring mid canon and fishing up from the tree. There's fish cruising around the normal haunts, leaving wakes wherever they go in the low water.  There's an occasional rise, but not many more than once.  I get a couple ant eats, and leech eats, and soft hackle eats. There's fish to be caught, but not much of a sunny afternoon hatch.

The clouds are here Thursday morning. They're not as heavy as predicted, but it brings some blue wings early in the afternoon. There's a pod of fish doin' it below the small western island at the tree.  I hook up, into the backing, and then into the weeds. That's how most of them go for about 90 minutes, but it looks and feels like the MO!  

This is a post hatch Bank feeder that I spent a good 30 minutes on both getting into position and then finding something he'd eat.

This is the one that finally fooled him.

I've seen the lights before when working in the Northwest Territories and Alaska, but I can't remember ever seeing them in Montana or anywhere in the rockies. They are out a little bit tonight.