Today my buddy Tim and I chased brookies. Unfortunately they all got away! We hiked up a beautiful valley that was rumored to hold brookies but we only found some browns.
Despite cloudy skies trout would spook any time we got within 20 feet of trout. We didn't tie on longer leaders or use lighter tippets but I managed around a dozen brownies out of this stream.
We spotted a bunch of brownies as they'd scatter including two that must've been between 16-18 inches. After quite a bit of hiking and no brookies we headed to a stream closer to home to try our luck. We both landed a few little ones on streamers before heading to a more upstream easement.
This section of stream is really technical. Fish were spooky but long, precise casts yielded more than a few fish including the one pictured below. Most of the fish I landed came on an orange scud or gray zebra midge.
We didn't land any on dries but fish rose on and off with enough consistency that had we rigged up light enough we could have landed a few on dries and emergers.
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