Last Trip of the Decade

[driver]

Work finally let me get away to go fishing for a full day.

I had options:
No generation on the Smith... Winter sucks there and the other half has no fish anymore.
Stripers at the local lake.. Spotty reports from bait guys I know ruled that out
Make the long drive to a stream I haven't fished in 5 years.

I decided on the latter. Grabbed a Franzen, and the new 6wt glass rod I built and hit the road.



Didn't take long to get into a good fish



Patrick broke off the biggest fish of the day on the hookset, he was pretty sick after that.

Got into a few for good fish











Patrick finally on the board





Turns out it was worth the drive.



Hopefully it won't be 5 months before I fish for trout again.

btw- don't ask for details on this stream, none will be given

[itieuglyflies]

Nice bows for sure, one of those looks like an Erie steelhead.

[Dougfish]

Solid work! If not Epic.
 

[Woolly Bugger]

Really good chit mang! 

[hcrum87hc]

Nice!  Purdy bows. I need to get out soon!

[Big J]

Bet those bows put a nice bend in the rod.  Not a bad way to cap off the year.

[Dee-Vo]

This is great.

I like the fine print....