Post by Jay on Jun 29, 2011 10:10:59 GMT -5
Alright, It has been way too long since I have posted a fishing report and I don't have time to post a long eloquent one now! (like I could anyway) Matter of fact it has been a while since anybody posted a mountain stream report.
Anyway, made it to the Little River for the first time in way too dadburn long! Got the yardpass for Father's Day and headed to the mountains in a thunderstorm! Perfect weather for big butterbellies! (the trout not me).
The Little was very good to me! I caught probably 20 or so average trout. As it got closer to evening and the shadows started getting longer on the already stained water, I decided to go to a pool where I have caught a big brown before, just up form Metcalf a ways. I got in the water, a pool and a long riffle/ pocket water run below the pool. I caught naught in the pool, trying a dry fly, I caught naught on a dry all day. Switched back to a nymph through the pocket water and caught a 14" beautifully colored brown! I was satisfied with that fish as being my big fish of the day. As always if I can get a fish 13 or 14 inches, I have had an awesome day, but I wasn't done yet. I stepped up to the tail of the my big brown pool to put my first short feeler cast into the shallow tail out and it got nailed! After a avery intense and shoulder hurting battle I netted and photographed a 22" little River Brown! This is the third Brown over 22" I have caught on the Little, but the first I have ever photographed, so I was indeed psyched! I was whooping and hollering like a dang lunatic! What a day, I went back to the truck and poured myself a cup of Bourbon, took my camp chair down by the river and set there and watched the sun fade the rest of the way out. I couldn't have scripted a better ending to a Fathers Day solo fishing trip!
You can see the picture on my facebook page.
Anyway, made it to the Little River for the first time in way too dadburn long! Got the yardpass for Father's Day and headed to the mountains in a thunderstorm! Perfect weather for big butterbellies! (the trout not me).
The Little was very good to me! I caught probably 20 or so average trout. As it got closer to evening and the shadows started getting longer on the already stained water, I decided to go to a pool where I have caught a big brown before, just up form Metcalf a ways. I got in the water, a pool and a long riffle/ pocket water run below the pool. I caught naught in the pool, trying a dry fly, I caught naught on a dry all day. Switched back to a nymph through the pocket water and caught a 14" beautifully colored brown! I was satisfied with that fish as being my big fish of the day. As always if I can get a fish 13 or 14 inches, I have had an awesome day, but I wasn't done yet. I stepped up to the tail of the my big brown pool to put my first short feeler cast into the shallow tail out and it got nailed! After a avery intense and shoulder hurting battle I netted and photographed a 22" little River Brown! This is the third Brown over 22" I have caught on the Little, but the first I have ever photographed, so I was indeed psyched! I was whooping and hollering like a dang lunatic! What a day, I went back to the truck and poured myself a cup of Bourbon, took my camp chair down by the river and set there and watched the sun fade the rest of the way out. I couldn't have scripted a better ending to a Fathers Day solo fishing trip!
You can see the picture on my facebook page.
