By a Stream with a Fly-Rod

I caught 4 ~8-inch Brookies at the old fishing spot on Monday. I caught 2 each with 2 different flies, because I lost the first one, a white and black hair-body and -wings pattern to the biggest Brook Trout I have ever seen when I brought it too close to me and it broke off the fly around my leg. First time that happened, and the knot wasn't even bad because I caught 2 fish with it just before. The second pattern was a similar one. All the fish were caught floating the flies downstream, sometimes sweeping them across the water, on the surface or like a wet fly. I also coached my dad into catching the first fish (a 9-incher) he has caught while I've been fishing with him. While having hooked on to a fish of my own, the 4th one. All fish were released.

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"Rod up! Down! No rod handle down, rod tip up! Give out line, don't let the fish hang like that!"

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Brook Trout. Caught at the original fishing spot on the Prestile Stream. caught between 6-9 PM on three different flies. 2 9-inchers on a grasshopper imitation, 2 6-7-inchers on a Hemingway Caddis, and 2 6-7-inchers on a Royal Coachman wet fly. The first 9-incher was caught less than a dozen casts in, and the 2nd was caught on the cast right after. About time.

In other news, the left leg of my waders still has a slow leak.

Nothing yesterday. I hate black flies. I'm done with that spot.

Season Catch

1 4-inch Brook Trout in mid-June on Prestile Stream. Will try again for fourth time this year Sunday.