Instead of hitting a reservoir like I had planned, I decided to fish the creek behind my house that I've been fishing for almost 13 years now. It never ceases to amaze me! You feel very isolated and engrossed by nature even though you aren't far from town. I had my sister drop.me off downstream and I walked up in a pair of old boots and shorts. A great way to keep cool on this sorcher of a day!
The first two holes I passed had a bunch of fish in them, but nothing was bititng. But as a lifelong trout fisherman this stream is a dream. The next hole I caught 2 nice rainbows, both 12 inches or more, and a surprise smallmouth bass! A dinky one, but I have never caught or seen a smallmouth in this creek before, so I was pretty stoked.
Onto the next hole. Got hooked up to 4 different trout, was only able to land one of them though. After deciding to move on I went up on the bank and looked down into that hole and saw a monster trout, so I stayed and tries for another 20 minutes without a bite. I'll be back for him though.
The last spot is one of my favorites, and although I didn't catch any trout I did catch a personal new species. I believe it was a juvenile creek chubsucker, but I'm not positive (Mark B.?). I included a few pictures of some of the catches including this one in the link at the bottom of this post. There were easily over 75 of these guys swimming up and down a slow moving run.
Everything was caught on a white and silver blade roostertail, except the chubsucker which was on a trout magnet, and my go to 4'6" Fenwick HMG UL and Mitchell Outback reel.
I climbed out of the river, called my brother to come pick me up, and home I went, extremely satisfied. A beautiful day of fishing, catching and wading. Tight lines to all and to all a good day!
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