Well, with time to ourselves once more, we decided to poke around looking for other hidden spring creeks today. Boy, did we find one. Not a ton of fish, and we didn't catch much of the bigger ones we saw, but for another day we walked softly up a tiny creek for a few miles. At one point we were going to turn around as the water was skinny and not much happening, but we noticed a dead 25" male brown under a branch, likely left over from last fall's spawn. Hmmm. We kept heading up. We only saw 2 more trout in the 3/4 mile after that. The first was a male that held on the wrong side of an edge of a shadow. Amelia just gave me the rod and told me to prospect the water. As we switched hands and took a couple of awkward steps, a massive male brown jolted and headed upstream under the only root mass. It was in the 28 - 31" range and heavy. For the size of both the creek and the trout, it was like seeing my 9.5 pound, 34" brown in New Zealand. The next trout seen was a female holding tight to a left-over weed patch from last year. We saw it only when across from it, her tail stiff and body curved, ready to bolt, which she did the second we cast. A 22", skinny female. Some incentive here to return. Which we will. :)
Prior that we were able to sight fish the crystal clear waters to a variety of browns in the 14 to 19" range. Nothing heavy but some nice trout certainly. The peak of it was a little riffle that had a couple of browns popping to stones. Just when we thought we'd tagged the only two in the run, another came. Then another. And another. And 2 more to boot. It was a wonderful spot for lunch, for sighting, and hooking too.
Oh, and if you're wondering where we are fishing, I've copied the lat/long for you here:
I guess that copy paste didn't work so well. Ah well. ;)
Have a great weekend everybody.
DJ / AJ.
1 comments:
That sounds like a hell of a great find guys, well done. Great report too.
Shame that the Lat/Long didny come out !!! :)
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