Pages Pond

Pages Pond
Pages Pond Waterfall circa 1976

Friday, December 18, 2015

SOLITUDE

I needed to go stand in a river or stream or brook today, so I headed out to a wild brook trout stream late this morning. It was a cloudy, raw and overcast day. I was hoping that the rain from Thursday filled the stream up a bit .
Upon my arrival I could hear the rushing water and as I approached the first area to fish I saw the stream was bank full.
I took my first brookie of the  day on a Bomber, that was submerged. At the end of the drift it sunk and as I retrieved it I saw the boil and felt the take. A gorgeous brookie to hand. I fished upstream a ways using the Bomber but the fish showed no more interest.
I changed over to a soft hackle fly that Brk Trt had given me several weeks before and I came to an a very nice run where a small tributary fed into this brook and managed to bring two more to hand, hooking and missing two two others.
So, I had my solitude, caught a few nice brook trout and had a great morning!





5 comments:

  1. Nice going Pete! Thought maybe you would be fishing a bead head pheasant tail soft hackle ;)

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  2. Mark
    Thank you
    Well it was a soft hackle no bead though and it worked so I stuck with it! Had a good day!!

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  3. Hey Pete the "family secret" was fruitful for you. I love that place. Great photos.

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  4. By the way that rod and reel look familiar.

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  5. Brk Trt!
    Thank you!
    Yes it was fruitful and was good for my peace of mind today. I thought you would like that rod and reel shot, as you know great minds think a alike.

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