There are two spots in that pool where I usually catch a fish, but today neither spot existed. The half mile creek, however, looked like this:
I got two brook trout today, one on an Ugly and one on a yellow and chartreuse panfish jig. The first one was pretty special, because it is the first one I have caught out of a cut bank that I cleaned out over the summer, it was totally filled with leaves and not really a cut bank any more. Along with the pool above that was filling up with sediment from road runoff, I cleaned it out and returned it to a state that benefits the fish. Of course, the cut bank is very deep now and not too easy to fish, so I was pleasantly surprised. Then the nice deep sediment free pool above gave up another of many (it has fished well for a long time, though now it tends to hold a few fish rather than just one). That gave me one more reason to be happy than I had yesterday.... any day with any wild brook trout is a great day!
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Nice catches! Your streams have a good flow now. The weather is changing for the better and temps will be going up, finally. We have a sunny day today, YAHOOO!
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DeleteUnortunately the flows will only be right for a little while.
Beautiful brookies Rowan.
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Deletebrookies win in a beauty contest any day.