Jan. 2, and 60.7 degrees

"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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Met Uncle Wally at the top of the road leading down to Upper Creek?

We agreed to go over to Steels Creek instead. We decided to fish a
section of Steels
that neither of us had fished before. This is a section low down in the
campin'
areas. Thankfully, even with the temp. in the 60 degree range, there were
no campers
to be seen. I tied on one of my recently tied #16 parachute Adams, and
Walt tied on a
Madame X with dropper.

Walt took the lead and fished the first pool which is actually several
pools in a
bedrock granite formation. Like Upper Creek, Steels Creek flows through a
gorge, so
there are more bedrock plunge pools than mice in my house--at least I hope
so, anyway.
Things started out slow and remained that way for me, throughout the day.
Walt the
magnificent, however, had obviously sacrificed to the appropriate fish
gods. While I
was fishin' drys exclusively, Walt was catchin' fish left and right on the
dry he used
as an indicator? I couldn't charm a trout with anything I tied on, and I
tied on and
on and on...

I, finally, resorted to a prince nymph dropper, and caught a brown in the
8 inch
range. That was it for me. Walt however, removed his dropper and
continued to catch
trout on his #10 Madame X. I became distraught and just sat and cried
very loudly.
Walt remained unaffected, continuing to catch trout? Where we expected to
find trout,
they were absent and where we least expected to find them, they struck
Walt's fly. We
didn't get any strikes in the deep pools, but our droppers were probably
not set deep
enough. Mostly, trout were in the riffles and tight against rock
formations--those
that Walt caught anyway, as I only caught one fish :~^(

We come up on Walt's Jeep and he was ready to head on out, as he had worn
himself out
castin' and catchin'. I wasn't humiliated enough just yet and decided to
go over to
Upper Creek.

Upper Creek skunked me! I still had a dropper rig tie on and attempted to
coax trout
out of bedrock troughs, but they'd have none of that. I switched over to
a green
Stimulator. Nada. I fished for about two hours and finally called it
quits.

I gotta mouse pattern I'm gonna try next weekend, if he/she has dehydrated
enough to
cast by then.

Mark



mark, it was a fine day astream.

i could go on and on about proper equipment, but at least the fish caught my
drift ;-)

seriously, you would think that the fish would have been in the deep pools
this time of year. it was very much like a spring fish, the runs and riffles
held fish and the pools were bare..... dunno why, but it is something to
think about..... maybe territorial big browns down deep???

anyway, thanks for fishing with me on the last day of '04 and the beginning
of '05.... it was fun.

resolutions for '05

1) fish more.

2. fish some more.

3. cherish and enjoy as many low down browns in the company of as many
roffians as possible....

wally