Fishing was solid. A total of eight quality brook trout to hand from 6:30 - 9:00 this morning. All on chunks of crawlers. I gained permission from both landowners. Despite this a guy named Bob showed up at my pool and proceeded to fish downstream even though he did not have permission. He claimed he was friends with the other neighbor, so does this give him access to both other properties? The guy went downstream and came back upstream in only 15 minutes. We talked about our catches. Bob says he grew up fishing this stream and has been fishing for years. His personal best here is a 15.5" brookie. Buddy Matt got a 15" here last summer with me. Anyway Bob left and I was as nice to him as I possibly could be. It was not my land so I did not want to be a jerk about it. But it did upset me. I told my primary landowner contact about him and he was upset. There is some guy living in a camper down by the main bridge and thinks this guy is sneaking on. This was the second time running into Bob. The first time was last summer fishing with my buddy Tony. He saw we were fishing said hello, and turned around and went back.
Anyway Bob did not spook my brookies. Plenty of them. All quality. The first fish of the day and the last fish of the day were both 12" brookies! The last one will be my blog header. Just insane blue coloration at his jawbone. Each year I fish brookie streams more and more. Why? They taste the best. I tell people they are members of the char family, not the trout family. Their meat is orange pink color just beautiful. Some would say too beautiful to eat, like a tropical fish. I get that point of view too as I once was a strict catch and release fly angler.
1 comments:
Nice big brookies you got into there, great opening day! Say hello to Bob for me.
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