Found a watershed on the Old Plateau that hasn't been filled with ag sediment. This should be interesting.
Apparently the area landowners would rather not have would be anglers messing around their front yards located near bridges. Kinda figured this was the case in advanced and planned a discreet remote entry. Picked up a deer path, ended up in a semi dry drainage and boom...within 6 minutes, I was in the water. Still had a #2 PE variant on the line from the last trip. Walked up the creek a bit which at this point, was shallow very clean cobble shoal.
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LoginDidn't think there was a prayer of catching anything at this feature with what I had on the end of the line. Chucked to the right, a 12 incher tried to munch it. Threw to the left, engaged a 15 incher for a second and it came unglued. Pleasantly surprised at the quality fish found in this shallowish water, I thought perhaps I should leave the PE on for a bit longer. The rock above the low ledge in the pic above produced a very pleasantly colored brookie ~8-9. The brookie was spared the ordeal of being photographed. Within the first hour, I had fought and lost 6 fish, and had over a dozen strikes. Tied on four different offerings before settling on one that retained the fish. Also spooked an 18 incher. This stream had the goods.
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LoginAll of the flora seemed to be benefiting from the rich soil.
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LoginThe trip thus far was awesome. Lost a ton of fish, had at least 16 at hand by 10.30. Watching a bobcat cross the creek at the downed tree in the distance in the pic above was the icing on the cake. It rock hopped until reaching the tree on the right, then proceeded to jump without interruption and walk the tree across the stream.
I had to return the way I came. I'd covered about 1.2 miles. Managed to get back to the truck at 11.30, ate lunch, and broke out the 3# rod. My truck was parked on a ridge....stream #1 was on the left, a trib was located on the left. Hiked down the woods to stream #2 briefly
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LoginWas hoping for some brookie action here. The first fish I attempted to bring to the had was a brown. Could have swore #2 was an 11 inch bow, but lost it right at hand.
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LoginLost a 12 incher here.
12.45, I took off back to the truck. The last 45 minutes have been sufficiently productive.
I had big plans for the remainder of the day. I had scouted a river Sunday pm and though for sure I had found a viable remote access located at a very inaccessible gorge I thought would be brown heaven. The first attempt to enter was interesting. Barking dogs joined me, but I wasn't deterred. I made it about a third of the way down and was severely impeded by dead rhodo thickets. The dogs had alerted folk and someone was cruising back and forth at the rd. I emerged and made another attempt to enter a bit further down the road via a semi dry drainage. Same bullshit. Drove around a bit looking for remote accesses for other nearby creeks and did not score. Rough ass hood too.
Finally spent some time fishing a wretched hatchery section. Moved a few small browns, but that was it.
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LoginThe day being cut short wasn't a terrible tragedy. Banged out a TR before supper!