On 19-Apr-2009, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

Finally, finally, I got to escape the confines of house, job etc, and head

to my local small stream. And, for April, it was small. Water is low,
warming pretty early, but still around 50 degrees. This stream is stocked
at
it's lower end, but upstream carries a decent population of native
browns(few large). It had been billed as a day of showers, but turned out
to
be warmish(65-70 degrees) and a bit muggy. I saw some bugs, mainly grannom

caddis and small blue quills, but there was a Hendrickson or two around.
The
fish were less than enthusiastic,though.

I waded in, crossed and headed upstream to a small bridge. It felt great
to
see the budding trees, see the activity from robins, doves, sparrows and
various furry critters. I started out fishing downstream with a pair of
wets. A green/olive submerger brought 3 fish to me: a couple of small
natives and a larger, stocked rainbow. A hare's ear nymph yielded a couple

more. By now, I had long since passed the spot I had parked, so decided to

fish back up with dries.

This time of year, my fallback is always the Coyote Ugly dry, and I chose
a
#16. It brought a couple more browns, one decent sized, out of deeper
chops.
A change to a blue quill, and another to a #14 Hendrickson brought no
interest, and frankly, I only saw 5 fish rise the whole day.
A return to the Ugly got me a splashy miss, but that was the last trout I
came near. Still, a nice start to the year.

Nice consise TR Thanks
We are headed out to Rock Creek for the first trip of the year
I am looking fiorward to a similar springtime exhilirating experience

We are a "threat" to annoy the fish as they are all released anyway
Just pls don't tell them we are coming.

(Rock Creek fish do coommunicate by e-mail)

Fred