Seeing Spots

So I packed up the car last Friday night on a bit of an spur of the minute escape. Got everything packed, a little food, tent, fly rods, six pack of beer, and almost packed everything, except I left some of my fly boxes. In fact, all I ended up with were softhackles and streamers. July 18, 19, 2009.



























































Since I had no dries I just fished right through that coral dun hatch with softhackles. I think every rising fish I saw took the softhackle.

The last fish picture was a trout of about 15 inches. I was fishing in a car sized hole, a bit of a rock ledged drop around it with a nice riffle pouring in. The bottom was filled in with a beaver willow cache. I had already taken about half a dozen smaller fish off the surface with a Soft Hackle on the return & saw a bigger trout strike at one on the retrieve. So I put an enormous streamer on - one that came from an unknown streamer swap, conehead with eyes, and large green articulated rabbit body, about 3 or 4 inches long. Soaked it, cast it in and on the strip had a log like trout hit it take it down into the brush pile and get off. Next cast in, a smaller fish - a brook trout hit is , larger than the one pictured jumped and flipped the fly. Third cast the pictured fish took it an I landed him. This was all in a spring creek hole about the size of me car, with a riffle pouring in.

Two Weekends in June

Recent pics ...

Sun on the hill on the other side of coulee.


A river pic - that is bank work that is one year old.




No big fish, but lots of these small stream fish


We we're at the farm so there were chores to be done.


Grif had to be penned up separate and was not happy about it.


Three of the girls were in heat and it wasn't puppy time.


The orphaned calf had to be fed.


Tractors had to be ridden


Next day we fished a stream that had had 4 inches of rain a couple of days before.


Hot steamy and foggy.




















This brown trout lip jewelry is a swap fly.