The "Little Creek".....

What's going on...This little creek that flows into a small stream has a lot of history with me. I first found out about it when researching the stream which it flows into. The article told me it was part of the protection the small stream had. "All tributaries shall fall under the same rules"....so that stirred interest into this little creek and i found myself checking it out. I started walking it from it's start to where it enters into the small stream. Parts of it were kind of swampy and others were real gorgeous. It had it's share of pools and riffles with the necessary undercut banks with a fair amount of woody debris to make any wild trout happy. My first attempts at fishing the little creek were less then stellar. More tiny brown trout scattered then caught. But I continued to fish it and over the many years I have come to some conclusions. One of them is that the brown trout in this little creek are for the most part  born, live and die within it's waters.

 

 

This is one of the many brown trout I have taken from this little creek over the last 20 years. Most of them look identical both in size and color.
 

This is a wild brown trout taken from the little creek. It to has the same coloration and spotting as the rest of the brown trout from the creeks waters.
 

And just last week I tangled with this fellow. Please note the color and spotting of this fish. All of these fish seem to possess the same genetics. Is the creeks waters responsible, or perhaps the same offspring of the original browns that spawned in the little creek many years ago. This is one of those magical things that keep me going back to the "little creek"....