Small Stream Action

Today felt like a trout day, so I headed to the river. It sucked.

I biked past some random small streams and thought to myself  "they have to have fish." They didn't suck. The first cast with a calf tail bomber and a trout whacked it. I only briefly felt his fight. No worries, the next cast a nice little salmon parr took. I worked my way upstream to find at the head of the next pool a perfect lie. The cast was made, and a beautiful trout of sizable proportions came up and slurped down the bomber. I continued fishing with only one hit and soon reached a pool too big and slow to fish and decided to check the other little creek. It poured out common shiners and salmon parr. The only trout was seen right as I was leaving and I threw a pine cone too his feeding lane to see his reaction. The crazy little brooky came up and whacked it! I decided to come back and catch him another day.

Fallfish

Pretty salmon par.

Blue Wing Olive

this will be some good terrestrial fishing in the summer!

She wanted it!

Sparse spotting.

A pool on the second stream.