"SteveB" wrote in
news:i8MGc.11020$nc.7540@fed1read03:

In advance, I apologize to the purists here. I was not fly fishing
because of the nature of this stream. Overgrown trees, brush,
boulders, all manner of things. It was frustrating enough with a
short spinning rod and a trout spinner. I would have probably broken
a fly rod into twelve pieces and come out muttering if I had been
trying to fish the creek with a flyrod.

That's no excuse ... there are ways of fishing flys in these waters
you may need to be shown how though.


[snip]

I thought that browns were supposed to be very cautious and wary.

:-) Even the wary must eat.

The
water was turbid because of the amount of water that was coming
through small passages. Was this just a dumb hungry trout, or did he
just not see me? I caught him right at my feet. I want to understand
them so the next time I go, I can catch a couple more nice ones.

And what is the difference between a stream and a creek?

Deepends where you come from I suspect ... here there's none. When
referring to streams here they could be a creek, river, rivulet, beck or
even a brook.


Steve

BTW, this creek/stream was big enough that I did manage to fall into
one of the biggest holes, and go completely under water......... two
way radio, hearing aids, and all.

A Full electro-Reid?

;-)

Steve
(hope the electronics survived the dunking ok)