Friday, March 11, 2016

A Berkshire Stream

Yesterday I paid a visit to a stream I first set eyes to several weeks ago. On that day it was cold and blustery with ice and snow still in force. Marking some good looking spots I was determined to come back. I reached the stream about 10 am, later than I wanted, the reason being I went left instead of right and had to drive a long way to get back to where I wanted to be. The stream is located in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and in places has a pretty steep gradient. The pools were deep and some of the runs were impressive, and looking at it you knew it had brook trout.



There is a special kind of anticipation when one casts a fly on new waters, a feeling of opening a gift at Christmas. On the third cast I had a hit. Two or three casts later another hit. Finally I had my first hook-up.


This little guy was responsible for those hits "tenacious" indeed. This was the size trout I had taking my flies, he was one of many, many.


The stream was to nice to only hold small brookies. There had to be bigger fish somewhere. There was and I got a few of them to take. Look at all those hemlocks.


I started taking brookies like this. "Kiwi" look at that fly.


I had a big brookie swipe a streamer alongside of that boulder, I will try for him another day. My outing was cut short because of rain. I only fished a small section of stream and I have much more to explore.



20 comments:

  1. Another beautiful blue line Alan. After seeing a lot of these blue lines and the "bushy" conditions you fish, I've come to the conclusion you could cast in a phone booth (provided you could find one these days). I'm probably not the only one here that would be interested to hear how you manage this.

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    1. thedeadfisher
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      John cast I can, but the phone booth has walls lined with flies.

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  2. beautiful. glad you had such good luck!

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    1. TexWisGirl
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      Theresa it was not bad for a first time try.

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  3. Ahhh Brk Trt, your in my backyard. I'm a resident of the wonderful Berkshires & this stream actually looks very familiar. But then again, they all seem to look alike.
    GOOD STUFF!!........Phil

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    1. DRYFLYGUY
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      Phil, I spend some time prowling about the Berkshires. A little more time on this one should prove to be very worth while.

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  4. Welcome to the "north" Alan! Really cool to be on a new stream, and even cooler to see such divergent age classes of brookies on a single stream. Great sign of it's health! Enjoy exploring that brook over the season ahead.
    Will

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    1. Hibernation
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      Will I thought I would find some remnants of snow when I arrived, not to be. I feel so good when I see such little fish, like you said healthy stream.

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  5. Alan , I do not think I would be forgetting about that stream any time soon. Great looking water. You guys sure have some great water in your area of world. Thanks for the photos

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    1. Brad Basehore
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      Brad we're very fortunate to have so many streams to fish, and not crowded either.

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  6. An early Spring day on a native trout stream - it can't be beat!

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    1. Millers River Flyfisher
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      Ken very true.

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  7. Nice job exploring new blue lines. As always the scenery is just gorgeous. Worth the trip!

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    1. TROUTI
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      Pete you never know what you'll find, but this time it was not bad.

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  8. You've done it again Alan. Simply beautiful. How many different state licenses do you have?

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    1. Howard Levett
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      Howard I have a CT license which is cost free, and I have a Mass. license which is a yearly non-res. If I fish the other states I'll purchase a 3-5 day license.

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  9. Alan
    Another gorgeous stream, were all the trout taken on dries? thanks for sharing

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    1. Bill Trussell
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      Bill none of them were taken on dries. Wet flies and a streamer.

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  10. A beautiful stream and a great story of you fishing it.

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    1. Parachute Adams
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      Sam when the brookies cooperate it's a good story.

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