Friday, August 11, 2017

Home Water, Summertime.

It's been a few years since I was actually able to fish my home river in the summer... what a horrible thought that is. But this year has been pretty much perfect conditions, so I've gone a couple times. My last little trip was the best so far. I caught three wild browns on dries within the first half hour.








I hiked upstream after the dry fly bight slowed to fish some deep holes where I'm sure there'd be some streamer eaters. I caught a gorgeos wild brookie, which I was really happy about since I started the day hoping I would catch one. I hadn't gotten any in there yet this year.


A little later I got the last trout of the day, a holdover brown.


Although the flows are slowly dropping this is a great year. I'm considering leaving this stream completely alone this fall so the fish have the most succesful spawn possible, as much as I wish I could catch some bigger trout this year. December is often a good time to get larger fish... maybe I'll have a early winter like 2014, but I doubt it. 

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  1. Rowan
    It appears that there is a decent flow there and the wild ones look well fed. Awesome looking brookie!!

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    1. This time of year they eat a lot of frogs in here. some of the bigger ones get ridiculously chunky in the summer!

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  2. RM, I am very glad to see your home stream in such good shape, most especially for this time of year. What beautiful trout in there!

    Best, Sam

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    1. It's not so much in good shape for this time of year as much as it is average after two years of it being awful.

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