Friday, September 1, 2017

Trip Report: Cool Waters

Today a friend and I were granted permission to fish a prime stretch of a creek down by Preston. The drive was beautiful.We arrived on stream by 845. What we found was probably prime hopper water if we had gone later in the day. Unfortunately the shore was full of tall weeds and the deeper channel of the river was mostly carpeted with weeds. I hooked into one nice trout of around 16" but he shook of quickly. The tall weeds on shore were heavy with dew and we got pretty wet. Rather than soldier through it we decided to head to a different, public section of the same creek in hopes for a more clear stream channel.
 We found a couple areas with decent water and started landing some fish. My buddy fished a rapala while I used pink and orange scud with a trailing olive WD40.
A bunch of fish came to hand but none as buttery and nice as this one. Well, the next one was pretty buttery too!
We headed to another creek in the early afternoon and did ok. The sun was high in the sky and the second stream was crystal clear and freezing cold. I landed around a dozen here. We spotted a few solid 18 inchers, more 15-17 inchers, and a ton of smaller fish. Unfortunately they also spotted us.
After a few hours on that stream we hit a third spot on our way home. I fished with the three weight and caught 10 or so on the Quill Bodied Mayfly Emerger including the fish pictured above. He was sitting a foot away from shore in a two foot wide channel between weed mats. The water was only 4-5 inches deep. I landed a perfect cast right on top of him and he sucked the fly down quick. We headed home around 7pm. Solid day of fishin.

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