Brookies one more time.

The last few weeks have seen some of the best wild brookie fishing I have seen in the last 5 years. It is on fire with plenty of water in the headwaters. The hatches have been prolific as well with yellow sally's and caddis coming off well.







I bushwacked a new trail to get below a long water fall I have wanted to fish for a couple weeks now. When I got done fishing I saw this in the road that parallels the creek.

Western NC Brown Trout

I fished another local wild stream, this time for browns. It rained on and off the whole time but the fish did not seem to mind. I 'tore them up on an EHC size 12. I caught 25 before a downpour finally sent me to the truck.

Hit a couple of brookie streams in WNC and landed plenty of fish. Looks like the upper sections of the wild streams here are fishing better than the lower sections.








Here is a shot of the dividing line between the brookies and the browns on this particular stream