Wild Beginnings

[PatrickC]

Took a guy out Friday that has never fished for wild trout. Great day. Thought you would enjoy some fish porn. He kicked his career off with a fat 14" wild brown on a 2wt. That's a pretty nice way to get started.

Looking forward to the Jam this weekend. I do have a tent site if anyone does not have a place to pitch a tent. I use a camping hammock, so I don't take up much space.

And last but not least, I'm hoping someone out there is game for midnight browns on Penns this weekend :-D

 

[TheWulff]

What a spectacular brown! And on a 2 wt. Nice work and good job getting someone new into the wild game. Wild browns and bows - looks like a gem of a stream you have there.

 

[PatrickC]

TheWulff wrote:
What a spectacular brown! And on a 2 wt. Nice work and good job getting someone new into the wild game. Wild browns and bows - looks like a gem of a stream you have there.

I did not even know that stream had browns in it. Worst part is, 2 pools before that I was stripping in a wooly bugger and a 20" brown shot out from under the boulder I was standing on and took the bugger. He shot across the pool and my jaw hit the boulder. I though I had a good hook set, but he jumped and threw the hook right back at me. I would have never expected such a large brown in that creek. Now I know.

 

[pcray1231]

If it's the stream I think it is, I have a friend who caught a big brown under a boulder like you describe, and I caught one slightly smaller than yours just upstream in a pool that looks like the background of that pic. Perhaps they are the same fish.

There's brookies there too!

And my jaw quite literally hit a boulder just downstream, broken tooth and all to show for it! Lost camera too, including the pic of the 20 incher, of course.

 

[PatrickC]

I'm sure it is that stream Pat. I'm sure the browns come from the stream it dumps into. I never made it up high enough to get to the brookies last week. I may hit it on the way home from the jam on Sunday and just start higher up.

I want to fish the next creek to it as well. Thinking about going over sometime and just camping out over there so I have time to cover them well.

 

[troutmagnet]

thats awesome! i really would like to get a wild rainbow one day.....very pretty fish!