SlingerFlyRods
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- Jan 6, 2014
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Got out a bit early from work yesterday and was in contact with "Heberly" from on here and decided to go explore a mountain stream. It didn't take too long to pick a blue line from the map and find a spot to park on the map. Next thing you know we are on our way in search of wild browns.
The trip started off very quickly with excitement of a very large fish snapping off his presented beadhead and followed by refusals as expected.
Then we started picking up some brookies in the 4-7" range. At that point we still were not totally convinced there were any browns in this stream.
And to get sidetracked for a moment, we both agreed we have never seen a stream have such an amazing green drake hatch outside of the typical penns creek type of hatch.. These flies were comparable to a size 8 to 10 in a fly and fish were active and on them. We momentarily switched to a dry but casting was difficult so we maintained our subsurface presentations and it was on.
We hit a dead stretch of a 50 yards or so that made it look like that was going to be it for the day. Then I hooked into this guy. 14" on the button
We both took in the moment and said, yep. Now we go on. There are browns in here.
A few casts later and he landed another.
And another....
and a few more...
I caught this guy that looked like a black missile on top coming after my line. What a fishery this was indeed.
drakes were out in full force and one stopped for a break offering a picture opportunity
We found a couple longer wide blown out pools but nothing much was there except a good spot for pictures.
And in expected fashion, I got to be a subject of some phenomenal photography by Heberly.
Great day overall, definitely on my "to do list" again when we get some rain. I can imagine there are some bigger fish than what we experienced but who knows.
Thanks for taking the time to read this
The trip started off very quickly with excitement of a very large fish snapping off his presented beadhead and followed by refusals as expected.
Then we started picking up some brookies in the 4-7" range. At that point we still were not totally convinced there were any browns in this stream.
And to get sidetracked for a moment, we both agreed we have never seen a stream have such an amazing green drake hatch outside of the typical penns creek type of hatch.. These flies were comparable to a size 8 to 10 in a fly and fish were active and on them. We momentarily switched to a dry but casting was difficult so we maintained our subsurface presentations and it was on.
We hit a dead stretch of a 50 yards or so that made it look like that was going to be it for the day. Then I hooked into this guy. 14" on the button
We both took in the moment and said, yep. Now we go on. There are browns in here.
A few casts later and he landed another.
And another....
and a few more...
I caught this guy that looked like a black missile on top coming after my line. What a fishery this was indeed.
drakes were out in full force and one stopped for a break offering a picture opportunity
We found a couple longer wide blown out pools but nothing much was there except a good spot for pictures.
And in expected fashion, I got to be a subject of some phenomenal photography by Heberly.
Great day overall, definitely on my "to do list" again when we get some rain. I can imagine there are some bigger fish than what we experienced but who knows.
Thanks for taking the time to read this
