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stoke of piscatorial pursuits 16
Not recent, and I thought I'd posted before but couldn't find that I had posted it...I've gotten to where I don't take any photos while fishing anymore,,as I all carry is the iPhone which stays in the ziplock pouch in the Silversonics...but felt like contributing. No huge fish in this TR...sorry.
Anyway, not too long long ago....in a place not to be named...
Decided to hit a high elevation blue line in North Carolina. Relatively easy hike in to a small stream. This was an exploratory mission as I'd not been here before. But wanted to chase native App Brookies.
Only ran into two other fisher persons who were together...but saw a few hikers. This is looking back from where I started...not too far from the goal.
Only a small portion of the creek has a real trail after reaching , it's not a far hike down, till it appears to drop off the face of the earth..
This small fall creates a nice natural barrier which creates some nice size pools for such a tiny flow otherwise..
Which brought me to this pool.
I tHink it was my first or 2nd cast into the flow, withYellow stimulator...hooked into a fish. Man, this fish seemed to big, and fought too hard to be a tiny app Brookie ..must be a Rainbow. But that would be impossible at over 5k feet with a gigantic falls barrier...needles to say I was bit shocked at the size of the brook tour I pulled out.almost all TR reports I'd seen for Apps Brookies, were really small fish..this is pretty much a trophy for a wild Brookies in NC, and I was just getting started.
This pool and a few others yielded some beautiful fish...I ran into the other fisher persons, and after a few reluctant minutes of questioning, with both revealed our astonishment of the quality of this high elevation, infertile stream...
Lone sentinel watching my hike out...
Edit: well trying to do this on an iPad with edits was a complete shit show...don't feel like putting back in order or uploading higher Rez again.
