3 streams, 1 day

This past weekend a friend and I went out fishing together for the first time, we met at the Zen Winter Series this past March when I gave a presentation and we've kept in touch and finally made a full day trip and I must say that it was very enjoyable even though I'm  usually solo when fishing.

I had hoped to get us up to a local greenback stream but unfortunately the road was blown out and I haven't been feeling well so the 3 mile uphill walk was out so we did something I've never done before and fished the lower reaches of the same stream that the GB's are in and we got into some really nice Browns. Steve was the first one to land a fish and what a fish, 14" long and butterball thick had his Badger UNC singing in this little stream. No pictures of that one but I was able to land a few nice fish also, not 14" nice but still respectable for a 4' wide trickle.

After an hour or so we decided to head for wider pastures and descended to a bigger stream with much more open terrain.

Normally this stream is an easy 20-30 fish water with 3 species the norm and 5 species a possibility but today all we could scratch up were some small Browns, Steve catching the only non brown with a decent Cutbow. Typically I can walk down a couple miles and have this water pretty much all to myself but on this day the people were everywhere, I'm hoping it was just a one time thing due to the super nice weather we had and not a sign of things to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once we were done here we went to a tiny brookie stream and had fun catching brook trout for a couple hours, this stream, at least where we fished it is really tight and a 9' rod with 9 feet of line and a couple feet of tippet is just about perfect for it. On this day the fish were tearing up dries, didn't matter which ones just as long as it floated they were eating it, most of them were caught on a EHC or  a parachute adams, I tried kebaris but they weren't having it so dries it was.

 

 

 

 

 

Brook trout may be invaders to the Rocky Mountains but I still love to catch them, their colors are unbelievable and what they lack in size they definitely make up for in their willingness to hit a fly and the places they live tend to be pretty amazing also.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!