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Monday, May 21. 2018

Part of our beat

A section of our beat on ye olde trout stream yesterday. Roll casting. You just have to imagine the Maytime bird song. Idyllic.


Posted by Bird Dog at 06:45 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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A 3WT and midges/emergers?

mmmm

You'll need a good sippin juice for break time.

Tight lines
#1 Brewmeistr on 2018-05-21 07:14 (Reply)
Brookies?
#2 rocdoctom on 2018-05-21 10:28 (Reply)
Of course brookies!

No real trout live in those little brooks only New Englanders call "streams". Still, the brookie is a great fightin' salmonid, none the less!
#2.1 B48 (Link) on 2018-05-21 10:45 (Reply)
That could just as well be a quieter stretch of a SNP stream in Virginia--an address where only Brookies are welcome.

It is not just the size of the trout in the fight; it can be all about how ferociously they attack a dry fly, or just that they are wild and live in wonderful places.
#3 Oldflyer on 2018-05-21 13:00 (Reply)
Looks very much like the "river" that passed by my childhood home. Before my parents had a deep well dug, our old well would sometimes run dry or close to dry, which would result in our using the "river" for bathing.

Walking on the shores of such "rivers" in the night time was fun. Ditto riding inner tubes on the "river" after heavy rains.
#4 Gringo on 2018-05-21 14:03 (Reply)
Most streams in the Northeast are stocked with mixed trout varieties
#5 Bird Dog on 2018-05-21 14:28 (Reply)
That looks like a lovely spot. Enjoy it.
#6 Dangerous Dean on 2018-05-21 15:13 (Reply)
I grew up in Upper Michigan and brookies were the rule. Now I live in Colorado and if you are willing to put in the work you can fish brookies. Same goes for Montana and Wyoming.
#7 rocdoctom on 2018-05-21 22:09 (Reply)

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