My home river has finally dropped down and the fish are responding well
to dries in the pocket water. Generally this fishing starts by the
middle of July, but with all the unusual rain we've had this Summer,
flows have been high most of the Summer and the shallow pocket water
hasn't been shallow.

Picking pockets is very fun fishing, IMO. It's water that most anglers
pass by in favor of the deeper pools and holes. These stretches produce
lots of food and hold lots of fish. The fish are seldom fussy living in
such fast current and the fishing provides the angler with lots of targets.

I was covering quite a bit of water using a caddis dry with a dropper. I
was catching most of the fish on the dry and was thinking about taking
off the dropper. On a cast I hooked a Brown on the dry and during the
fight, it tried to dive under a rock. When I pressured the fish from
under the rock, a bigger Brown came out and chased the first fish in an
agitated manner. Then the bigger Brown took the dropper. The bigger
fish went one way, the smaller another, breaking off the dropper at the
bend of the dry's hook. I landed the smaller fish and the bigger one
took off my dropper. Pretty cool!

Willi