Fool in the rain

[Drossi]

Got out Saturday 4/20 for some rainy day, small stream wild brown fishing. Went retro with a Fenwick Feralite. Stream conditions were just where I was hoping they'd be, up with some color to the flow.Managed a couple of little browns and was satisfied, then it happened. I got to a nice undercut, flipped a rollcast into it, and out came a beast (for this stream) of a brown to inhale my bugger. I should always expect the unexpected but this startled me. The fish immediately tried to make off for the cut bank and the overhanging brush. I chased and managed to slip down into the hole on my rear end, very graceful. The trout stayed on and I eventually freed her from the snags and got it into the net. PB wild NJ brown!

[akoop]

Nice work, gotta love those wild browns!

[bigfishy]

gr8 report !!! love hearing tales of the fly!!! how big waz ur biggun?? 12?15?17? hard to tell without anything for scale in the pic

[thmyorke1]

beautiful wild trout and beautiful stream. Really like that shot of the stream, 2nd pic.

[AndyS]

I like the photos of the fish AND the stream pics also !! good stuff :)

[FASTEDDIE29]

Good looking Browns from the creek! Congrats on the PB man! Awesome!:D

[Drossi]

I backed it up with a major skunking from the nubby fin stockers last night. :) Go figure....

[JDTuna]

Great fish, congrats on the pb!

[Adrenalinerush]

Gotta love those brown, great looking fish

[Drossi]

Gotta love those brown, great looking fish

My favorite by far. Then comes smallmouth (basically brown trout for warmer water). Then brookies. Rainbows will do but I prefer the 1st 3 when stream fishing.

I don't have a boat or access to one so I never really got into lake trout, walleye, or the other lake dwelling fish. When I'm older and can no longer wade well. :)

[thmyorke1]

My favorite by far. Then comes smallmouth (basically brown trout for warmer water). Then brookies. Rainbows will do but I prefer the 1st 3 when stream fishing.

I don't have a boat or access to one so I never really got into lake trout, walleye, or the other lake dwelling fish. When I'm older and can no longer wade well. :)

Highly prefer stream fishing myself. Feels more involved.

They should crossbreed browns and smallmouth, there's a way to do that right? :D Bronze-trout? Brown-mouth?

[NorthJerzyG]

Great pics, congrats on the PB!!

[Jerzguy2]

Beautiful brown on the Fenwick! Couple of years ago, after going thru the bamboo, graphite craze, I thought about when I was the happiest and went back to Fenwick glass. My favorite being the FF70 which was my original that was broken. Thanks to ebay, I now own almost every model under 9', love the old Fenwicks!!Jack