Itching an Urge to Trout Fish Near Home

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I had a lot of work to catch up on over the weekend and by around 8 PM last night I was 99% done.  This morning I woke up incredibly early – 4:22 AM early to be exact – and I got up and enjoyed the birds while inventing things to do.  I worked on my species list on my website.  I edited some photos and organized my fishing gear.  While in my trout tackle I got an urge to go trout fish for a couple hours.

 

What truly triggered the trout fishing longing was that it was cool today and raining.  In fact when I made the decision to go it was 58° and drizzling.  Things couldn’t be more perfect and 30 minutes later I was on one of my neighborhood waters ten miles from town.  Of course skies began to clear up!

 

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I wont dwell because Granny and I are organizing a fishing plan for tomorrow but I caught four small browns and a chub.  All the fish were on a size 12 Parachute Adams.  Good stuff!

 

trout-streamOne funny thing happened I’ll share.  I was sneaking a cast up around this grass.  As you can see it looks great for a brown trout.  I ended up hooking the grass.  I didn’t want to spook the pool so I broke my fly off.  When the tippet broke my fly fell in the water and in less than a second about a 15” brown came up and ate it.  I got a new Parachute on as quick as possible and first cast he ate it and I missed him.  Some tricky trout are not meant to be!

 

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing

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