Before the blog, favorite stories from the past… 6/12/13

Since getting into fly fishing in ernest last summer I've never had a greater time than I did the other day.  Often times I've read reports from people on here describing those 30-50+ fish days and dreamed of when maybe I'd be fortunate to have a similar experience myself.   I kinda wished the real world didn't exist to call me back the other day....

I arrived on location sometime in the early afternoon and after a walk through the woods I made my way down to the stream.  I could tell this rain had helped things out as the water was making plenty of noise, the bugs where everywhere and I'd hope the trout would be too.  After spooking a large number of trout right off the bat I knew that at least they were there.  Dark shadows were darting in every direction at my looming shadow.  Stealth and keeping a low profile would be needed today for sure.

I decided to start at this pool and work my way up from here.

As soon as my fly hit the water It was gone!  Good way to start things out.

I continued to work my way upstream from here taking fish from every pool varying in size from 4-7 inches.

Just as I was coming upon a large rock in the middle of the stream to hide behind to cast I saw this on the rock!  I was like what the heck, did someone lose their pet millipede!!!  I have never seen one this large ever before.

As much as I wanted to touch this thing I was kinda nervous I'd end up paralyzed stream side and become bear bait so for once I stayed my hand and kept moving upstream.

I then came upon this nice little pool and as soon my fly got to the rock I saw a orange flash under the water and the most beautiful fish I have caught this year came to hand.

Moving on up!

Looking back down...

Oh man by this time I did NOT want to leave but that thing called the real world came calling so I left this most special place wearing big smiles all the way home :)