TR: Saturday at the stream

Had a lovely day yesterday. I started off exploring about 15 minutes north
of where I usually fish to check out the Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx. According to the
PA DNR, this is a brook trout stream, which they supplement with stockings
of brookies. I've always been curious about it, so I thought I'd check it
out. I'm always keen on brookies!

It didn't seem like much of a brookie stream at the three places I stopped
and looked at it- lots of slow meandering sections. Fairly small, at most
20 feet across. I only fished at one of the sections, where I managed to
bring a good sized fish out from under a log to look at my coachman
streamer. I'm not convinced it was a trout, might have been a bass, as I
ended up catching quite a few bluegill/sunfish out of that spot. Seemed
like more of that kind of water.

I did that for maybe 1.5 or 2 hours, then headed to Xxxx Xxxxxxx. It was
such a lovely day, cool temperatures, blue skies and the water was in good
shape. On about the second cast I took a nice brown out of the very first
hole by the corn field parking spot, just down from the big rock hole:

http://filer.case.edu/wpc/junetrout/june06csbrown.jpg

Elk hair caddis did the trick. I'd seen him rise as I was stringing up and
it was a fairly easy matter of roll casting to him with the small tan
caddis. Moved on up from there to the big rock hole and took another brown
and a feisty smallish rainbow. Then the old guy I see pretty much every
time I'm there (I call him Pete because he's always shouting that at his
dog) moved in right on top of me and I gave him the spot.

Fished on up to the glory hole and on that magic caddis pupa emerger that I
like so much got a good rainbow and then a very pretty brown to take. They
just nailed it with no hesitation. Here's the brown:

http://filer.case.edu/wpc/junetrout/june06csbrown2.jpg

I headed back to the car and fished the big rock hole just for a little
while, taking another rainbow on a peacock trude. It was still early-ish,
about 4:30, but I decided enough was enough and headed home. A good day!

Bill