A tumbling free running stream as it wind through the eastern Connecticut highlands. The stream flows full and cold and the brook trout are pleased. The stream may have a name but it's not important. In my journal it is not even mentioned although I have fished it numerous times. As a younger guy i kept pretty good records of my wanderings but got away from that years ago. There comes changes in ones life where your recall is not as sharp. That is why I again have been keeping notes. Most times they are scratched down in a spiral memo pad but that works for me. What I'm trying to say is there will come that time when sharpness is not that sharp...write it down.
My fishing partner suggests this fly. A beautiful sparse wet fly.
She knows that the resident wild brookies in this stream like red.
A wild native taken from the stream. It's story is now written about in that spiral memo pad.
From one just a tad older than Alan, never a truer word has been spoke or in this case, written.
ReplyDeleteMark Kautz
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Mark we all get to the point where it's better to write it down.
Wow, look at the orange spots on that brookie!
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Shawn nature did not miss anything when it created that brookie.
That trout. What a stunner.
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Most brookies are lookers and a few of them are as you say stunners.
I hold as an article of faith that red is especially attractive to brookies - for all we know it is just the right shade of gray to their eyes. And then there is that purple fly phenomenon. The Purple Adams is a big fly out west.
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Kevin purple is a favorite color of mine. And when used the trout reception to is also quite good. Purple Adams, that's a new one for me.
Great fly choice advice by your fishing partner. Man what a beautiful spotted brook trout!
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Sam most times she is right in her selections. Yes that one was sweet.
Alan
ReplyDeleteThe notepad statement rings true for a lot of us seniors. I use my blog to refer back to when, where and how I landed fish from one year to the next. thanks for sharing
Bill Trussell
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Bill the blog is a great source for information on past fishing experiences.
Beautiful brook trout Alan....a marcel..!!
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Armando they are special creatures.