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.