Today I hit a spot for an hour or two after work, arriving on stream at around 545pm and leaving by 8pm. Clouds of midges, a few olive mayflies and some spare caddis fluttered about. The fish ate midge dries, mayfly emergers, and the trusty zebra midge. The stream was clear but not crystal. The banks, soggy!
One of the first fish to take the midge dry was a little tiger trout! This stream is pretty evenly populated by brookies and browns with this spot right in the middle of the range in which they overlap. Shortly after landing this specimen and a few others I tied on a mayfly emerger.
This pretty brown trout put up a great fight after taking the mayfly quickly after it hit the surface.
If ever there was a good evening to fish instead of mowing the lawn tonight was it. I've been kind of busy lately limiting me to frequent yet brief outings. Fortunately fishing has been great.
These two came to hand in brief succession. Fishing was pretty fast tonight with fish coming to hand every few minutes. Changing flies and presentations to match all the different bugs yielded continued fish out of only a few pools.
In the end I always tie on the san juan worm to dredge up a last fish! Temps measured in the high 60's while on stream and tonight is fixin' to be pretty cold. Today I even spotted a tree that had half orange leaves. Fall is close and with that comes fall fishing!
Beautiful trout, especially that tiger! Still on the hunt for one of those, and a Driftless rainbow.
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