Last Friday night I received a text from a good fishin' buddy, George saying he planned to squeeze in a day of Driftless trout fishing on Sunday. We picked a stream and met there around 730am. He's fished the MN Driftless a decent amount but I wanted to introduce him to one of my favorite little streams. He's a high stickin' son of a bitch, which to fly fishermen means he fishes close to the stream with his line tight to heavier flies fished deep. It's fun to watch him fish and observing his technique always ups my nymphing game. I'm always trying to sell him the virtues of nymphing froggy water.
Fish are very spooky in this stream and on this day the river ran crystal clear with the sun high in the sky. I landed some fish but George killed it!
This fish took some skill to land. The chunker dove for undercuts and submerged rocks to no avail. After fishing a good section of this stream we headed to another really technical stream to chase brookies. We landed a good number brookies and browns on this little stream. We were surprised at how fish ate such a variety of flies. We caught fish on various nymphs, midges, dry flies, streamers, and sj worms. I'd guess our combined effort saw 40+ fish to hand by the time we headed back to town. It was great to get out and fun to watch George cast into the weeds;)
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