Non Residents

Today I spent the day fishing for species that are mostly not full time stream residents. First, in the lower part of a larger river. There I was hoping for shad or sea run trout. I caught two species: one spawns in the river, the yellow perch, and the other, redbreast sunfish, live in the river for only as long as the temperature suits them.

I fished with Dalton for the first half of the day. The second half was part by myself and part with Adam. At a certain point Dalton and I got bored with not catching much in a somewhat drab scene and went to brighter and, as it turned out, more mosquito rich places. He got so sick of them that he left. I stuck around and was rewarded first with a brooky, who was clearly a stocker but must have come from a long way off...

...then another part time stream dweller: suckers. I love suckers. They can be big, they fight hard, and they are tough to get on the fly. Except today. I caught so many, as well as some perch and bluegill. There were some huge bass, sea run trout, and hickory shad in the river as well but I was unable to get them to move to the fly. It was a terrific day out, and here photographs of a species that has never been on this blog before, the white sucker.

I found a boat.