Night and Day

The rain we got last night brought the flows up. I checked the USGS waterdata tables. Perfect. I packed a box of wets and a box of nymphs and streamers and hit the small stream, the same one that had given me a hard time on Monday. It was a bit discolored, but that never hurts. I got busy catching trout and salmon par. Unfortunately every year it seams I catch more stocked trout here. I tried to convince the DEEP that there was a thriving population of wild fish, but to no avail. This stream, if no other, deserves to be a Class 1 Wild Trout Management Stream. Oh well. I had fair success short-line nymphing with a hairs ear. By the end of the day it was no more then lead wire and some light cahill colored thread, but at least the par were still eating it.