A friend of mine and I have been eyeballing a few streams on the map. One is a small trib, and another was a big main branch of a stream that had little access once you got up on it. With all the rain we have been getting, water levels were good in both streams. Stream 1 fished awesome. Good size fish for the size runs they were in and tons of fish at that. You'd look at a run and say "no self respecting trout would hold in 2 inches of water in a 1 ft by 2 ft run" but you would pull out a fat 8 inch trout.
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| False Solomon's Seal |
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| Stinging Nettles were thick on this stream. I was stung a time or two or dozen. |
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| Did I mention the colors on these fish? You'd think it was fall. |
Off to Stream 2, which was disappointing. Stream had some nice runs and pools, but just lacked fish. Caught maybe a half dozen, but they were all small in comparison to the size pools they were in. And the gnats....you would literally have a gnat fly into your eyeball every 30 seconds. Swarms of them. After an hour of that, we decided to cut our losses.
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| Sums up this stream. Someone hiked a section of a couch a good ways back this trail. |
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| Mountain Mint |
Not a bad way to spend the day learning a new area.
