Fished Fishing Creek (Clinton Cty.) on Monday and found the stream a bit on the high side but still more than Ok, have been watching George Daniel fish there for the past couple of weeks and why not give it a try. Wanted to fish just below the top bridge but someone had that run so I decided to fish were Paul and I fished many times in the early spring, no one there so I parked and got dressed and walked in, this is a small parking area just below the SIG Center drive way. Walking back I saw how many trees have fallen due to the high winds we have been having and the litter the fallen trunks have caused. Arrived at the area and found once again the geese are there and of course noisy! Got everything ready and tied on a smaller Hendrickson emerger to start and then just waited for some thing to happen, it did not take long! A rise here and a rise there from top to bottom. OK lets give them a try, bang the first cast a good looking brookie of about 10", then another and another. Saw some other rises that were a bit better and cast to one of them, well he refused the emerger so I tied on the trusty Olive #18 emerger and he took, another brookie! Saw two fish rising in the tail out and decided to give them a go, the first was the closer part of the tail out to me and he took on the first cast! The second was on the far side in the other section of the tail out, these are fish my buddy Paul just loved to fish to, well I got this one also and as soon as I landed it I looked to the sky and said this one is for you Paul, of course another brookie. Thru the course of a few hours I landed 16 brookies and lost at least 10 more, this is very strange and not normal at all. Maybe 20 years ago we might catch a brookie here and there but never that many? I think that the cabins in that area must have stocked that entire area with brookies for their kids? I moved up to the big pool at the rock slide and began to see a few rises in the flat water and caught some of them ALL browns. Saw a really big fish on the other side just eating like a pig but all my best casts fell 3-5' SHORT, a DT3 just can't get that kind of distance, should always carry a 7wt just in case. On the road side there are some great log jambs and of course there was a really fine fish just eating like another pig tight to the outer branches of the bottom log jamb. This section is just too dam deep to even think about stepping off the bank or even using a downstream presentation, some fish are just not meant to be caught.
I should have stopped in to the Tylersville hatchery and asked if the know anything about the brookie stocking. If they did stock them than was a very dumb thing to do, stock fish into one of the best naturally reproducing stream we have????
Had an adult Raccoon swim across the stream no more than 15 yards above me, never had that happen before, he got on the far bank and just looked at as to say what the hell are you doing in my area.
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