This is an outing I took last Thursday. It's a small stream that flows through a big piece of state land. I have fished a small segment in the lower reaches of it numerous times but have never ventured further up into the woods to see what it offered. Late last fall or early winter I searched it in another area. I caught one nice brookie, and the stream looked like it had potential. Kirk paid a visit to it in winter and he felt the same way. So Thursday in the overcast, and from time to time rain I ventured further upstream and found some very good fishing for wild brook trout.
The stream has some very good access in places, but others are like a jungle. The water temp was 56 degrees, quite cold. There are numerous undercuts and a good ratio of riffles and pools, real primo brookie water.
Like most small streams the insect hatches are sparse but one fly I noticed quite a bit was a cream colored caddis. So I tied on the closest thing I had to it which was a cream colored, almost pink parachute dry. Well they hit that fly very well.
On and off rain produced some beautiful images. The smell of a wet fir and hardwood forest is intoxicating.
I find all wild brook trout to be the most beautiful creatures on this earth. The brookies in this stream have a concentrated beauty in their small bodies. Their colors and needle point dots are spectacular.
Having explored this section I now must fish further upstream and see what waits.
Absolute wild beauty in a compact form.
Cream is definitely the color of the week there. Nice fish and pics.
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Kirk, and today it continued to be the color.
Beautiful scene. I'm just now writing about some fishing that I did in the rain last weekend. Everything seems different, cleaner, greener, fresher in the rain.
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It's nice fishing during a light rain.
Alan
ReplyDeleteThat undercut bank looking so inviting for one of those beautiful brooks. I have notice each brook trout has it own dissent color markings, which makes this trout so unique. What size dry produced the take? thanks for sharing
Bill Trussell,
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Places as such are magnets for small stream trout. Certain waters really bring out their colors. 14 and 16's Bill.
Those brookies are a work of art &the forest after a rain this time of year is a whole lot nicer than it is come late August. The fresh growth is much greener.
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For sure Joel. Those August rains can bring in some humid weather.
oh, those ferns just pull at my heart! don't get to see them here as we're too hot and dry.
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They are pretty when they're wet. Part of the northeast landscape.
A simply beautiful piece of the planet and what lovely inhabitants too!
ReplyDeleteRegular Rod,
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That they are my friend.
I have to say Alan that although those brookies are indeed beautiful, your photography skills would make a pile of garbage a delight to look at. Some people got it and some don't.
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Your very kind Howard.
It never ceases to amaze me how much beauty can be packed into such small streams and fish.
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And it's most every where you look.
Love the "concentrated beauty" aspect. All packed into the fishes and tight landscapes...Thank you for sharing.
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The images seemed to state concentration.
I can almost smell that "wet fir and hardwood forest" sitting here at work this morning just looking at that first photo. Great stuff as always!!
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I hope it made your day a little more pleasant.
Can't improve on those masterpieces of nature..
ReplyDeletepenbayman,
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No we can't. But they keep trying and the result is the same, and I think you know what that is.