Strong work tgapp, nice brown! Way to get back in the water after surgery!
I went fishing on Sunday and got skunked, I didn't even take any pictures because I was so busy trying every fly in the box. Today, having taken a day off to ponder my failure to catch fish, and to do a few hours of tidying around the house, I returned to the creek I fish, and tried a new spot that I'd seen from a distance. I had resolved to spend the day fishing new water. Sadly, I picked a place that gets sun all afternoon, and with broad contempt for the weather report, the sun decided to come out for most of the afternoon. I had next to no success in this new pool, against another stretch of rock wall. The fish are there, I know because i lost one that took my nymph rig at my feet when I least expected it, and threw the hook I didn't manage to set. I also had a big one rise and share his disdain for my choice of fly.
After a few hours of trying different things, I'd had enough not catching, so I headed for my usual rock wall, where a big fish took my second or third cast, and broke off my wet trailer fly. I had one refusal by another big one, but they really weren't rising by the time I got there (5-ish). So I decided to try something different, I tied on a size six peacock wooley bugger, and tried some streamer fishing. This yielded a hard strike from a feisty foot long cutty, which squirmed out of my hand as I tried to take a picture. I threw a few more casts, and got another hit, this time breaking off at the blood knot where my tippets was attached, making it two lures stolen by fish today! Dem bastids!
I tied on a black sparkle bugger, threw it a few times, and decided to head toward the car. I fished by the car for a few minutes, and decided to fish 'til dark since I was throwing a streamer. I headed downstream scouting a part of the river I hadn't fished, and whabam! I got hard take by another foot long cutty, which didn't manage to squirm free before sharing its beauty with the camera, though it insisted on being blurry in both pics I took.
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