Today I was a free man, so I hit two brookie streams. Plan was to fish two new streams, but after the first new stream kicked my butt, I said forget the second stream and fished a much easier to fish stream. I'll try to paint a picture to why the stream kicked my butt. On the first stream I took a trail down the mountian for about a mile to where it meets a creek, and then the creek goes back up the mountain but on the opposite side of the mountain from the trail. I fished up the stream till it was just a trickle and no brooks anymore. Instead of hiking down the creek back to the trail and then out, I knew that the stream would go all the way up and meet the road I was parked on. Hike to the trail and then back out would of taken 45 min to an hour and I figured the hike up the stream to the road would take 30 min so up the creek I went......bad idea. Took about 2 hours and was to date the worst hiking conditions I've been on. It got very vertical and hundreds of down trees making it about impossible. I did eventually make it out, but was in no condition to fish another remote stream so I just went to a good road side stream that never really has produced numbers for me, but has some big trout in it.
Here are the pictures from the first stream.
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| The hike in. |
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| Biggest brookie from stream one (was a very small stream) |
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| Believe this is a crane fly. |
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| Finally made it out of the creek in one piece. |
Pictures from the second creek.
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| Finally had one of the bigger guys come out. |
Now I know when I post this picture that it'll give this stream away, but I figure if you know the stream by seeing these crawfish you have already fished it before. I just think these guys are too cool not to post up. There are only two stream known that produce crawfish this color. This stream, and then another on the VA/NC
border. Has something to do with a certain mixture of minerals found in this stream.
Thanks for reading!
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