Yellow Flowers and Orange Flies

Very early in my days of hunting I took up my shotgun and walked the woods and fields with endless energy and anticipation. Many of the upland birds I was in search of took me to some pretty nice areas. The places I wandered were either state owned or leased and access was never an issue. Most times I was able to find those upland birds but the harvesting of them was not always a success. One of the side bars of hunting was my ability to find some beautiful streams. At the time I was not the fly angler I am today but the memory of these streams stayed with me. Over the last eighteen months I have visited several of these streams of my younger days. And this is a stream I fished recently. 

It is hard for me to tell if the stream is in good shape because I can't compare it, not having fished it. But it looks to be in awesome condition. I started here and found that it was an easy stream to fish, quite open and fairly comfortable to walk. I was armed with a couple of flies that I wanted to try and hoped they worked as well as they did in my mind when I was tying them.
 

 

It did not take long. Several casts and that orange fly got the attention of this brookie.
 

A "Trout Lilly" was the resting place for the orange fly. The thread is Veevus hot orange. It was given to me by a  follower of SSR's The thread is great. That thread body along with a few wraps of hackle is all that is required to bring several brookies to hand.
 

This brookie actually surprised me. It was the largest of the day. I am going to try to get an underwater shot of just how the hackle moves in the currents, it's remarkable.
 

"Orecchiette" with broccoli and salmon.