A Fall Outing

A beautiful reflection, "small stream style"

Yesterday was one refreshing day. I had a few things to take care of early in the morning so my start time was delayed some. Once completed and I was on the stream. There was a stiff breeze at times and although the sun was out for the most part there were also those times of clouds and that's when I felt the chill. The rain we had seems to have brought the water levels up, and that triggered a migration.

As I moved along the stream I noticed a few things. The places where I had before taken brookies were now void of them. Where did they go?

Well I finally managed to get one to take a dry fly. How beautiful is this...a male brook trout decked out in his autumn attire, rising to a classic dry fly...folks it does not get better then that.

The water at times looked so black. With the colored fallen leaves it looked like a night sky with the stars sparkling brightly.

I managed to fool a few more, I was surprised that all of the trout today were taken on dry flies.

But what was a plus this day was the sight of brook trout spawning all along the stream. I did not disturb them for their mission is far to important.

Mission accomplished....I viewed to whole process here. Thanks.