I wanted to check out a new tributary today up in the northern region of the state so checked in with George if he wanted to meet up on Sunday. He only had half a day to fish but it was plenty of time to get into something. We met on the first stream which was a very small and gin clear water that held native brookies.
I decided I would only film as we decided we weren’t going to stay here all day, if at all. It was a massive rhododendron tunnel for most of the small section we explored. George fished a couple pools and pulled out a couple small fish including one nice 5-6″ brook trout. After George started catching more trees then fish we decided it was time to move on.
We headed to another stream that also was known for its Brook trout. This was a bigger water and should be easier to fish. The first couple hundred yards yielded no fish. The water was amazing though, there had to be of been fish in there and we just weren’t getting to them. It wasn’t long until George caught the first one, a Brown! The stream was a variation of sizes, wide in some and narrow in others.
I then proceeded to roll two fish before landing my first. Both which looked to be browns. I was confused on browns being existent here and not brookies. Was my investigation incorrect? It wasn’t, we finally caught a brookie! This stream had browns and brook trout, awesome. Most likely because of the two different tribs flowing into it. This brookie nailed a micro streamer I was twitching in the current.
Up around the bend George hooked into a nice fish that was sitting in inches of water in a riffle. It was a beautiful 12″ brown trout.
More shots of the beautiful scenery while navigating up stream.
In the couple hours of fishing we both landed a handful of fish and rolled a bunch too. This is definitely a stream ill fish again, real soon. After that, its back to finding new water!
