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sheepfly:
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I was at another Young Life property in Colorado last week and weaseled in a little time on Crooked Creek that winds through the camp there.  It's a tiny stream that carves it's way through thick willows and is full of beaver dams and little brook trout.

Here is a typical Brookie from the stream  Some smaller, some bigger, few that where shy.


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The highlight of what little fishing I did was putting two high school guys onto their first trout.  They were both on the trip with me at camp, and even though we live near trout in NC, they had to travel to Colorado to catch their first. I had them dead drifting and skating a foam yellow sallie.  They both missed a few fish, which was exciting in and of itself.  We found a little run that had a number of eager brookies. After a few more missed hook sets, they both landed their first fish on the fly. They couldn't resist that sallie or trude skating across the top of the water.

Here is Skyler with his first trout.  Looks more like a trouser trout in this shot.

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Like the south east, these brookies were not to picky, and they were not very big. The water had a little tanic stain to it, so stealth was important, but not as important as it is on the gin clear streams of WNC.  They were beautiful, fun, eager, and a great fish to teach a kid to fly fish.

Here are some more shots of the creek.

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Larger of 3 big beaver ponds

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bend in willows of Crooked Creek

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pool above small beaver dam

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a yellow sallie that hitch hiked on me back to the cabin

CE:
You should have fished behind the liquor store.

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