Report - 7/28 How time flies!

Location: That O' Creek, 2.66'
Conditions: Rainy then clearing, 71F
Time: 9:00a-11:30p
Predominant Bug(s): Tricos!

It's been a very busy summer with activities coming around like camping, festival season, July 4th, and vacation planning!  As such, fishing opportunities have become sporadic at best, but I've found a few hours here and there the past few weeks mainly warmwater fishing.  I was up for a change of pace yesterday and headed out to our favorite inland coldwater stream.

This most recent outing was a particularly great one only because I got to get my trout fix on for the first time in months!  Yes months!  Gloomy was a good descriptor of the morning's weather as I set out for the short hike to one of my favorite sites within the park.  Once there, the familiar sights and sounds of splashy rises greeted the senses.  A quick glance in a small eddy revealed the hatch of the moment.  Tricos!

The spinner fall was full on at riffle upstream, but due to the incoming rain, I couldn't keep the tiny flies at the surface where our friends were feeding at the moment.  After a few minutes of trying to make do with a now drowned trico imitation, I added a small pheasant tail dropper and indicator and began working the pool.

On my third or fourth good drift through the smack dab middle of the pool, I saw my indicator hesitate, I set, and it was fightin' time!  Clearly agitated by a hook in his maw, the little ball of energy put on a beautiful aerial show for me before succumbing to a gently placed net.  It ended up being a very nice 12" Oatka wild brown.  I need to take more close up pictures of these guys as this one was particularly vivid!

I didn't have much more luck as the spinner fall was ending around 11am and everything seemed to quiet way down.  A little more time with nymphs and streamers still yielded nothing, so I decided to call it a day.

Family and friends are coming into town for our much belated Housewarming Party so Saturday will be a wash fishing wise.  Hopefully, dad and I will be recovered enough come Sunday morning so I can bring him to our wonderful fishery for the first time!

That's it from me!  Till next time and I hopefully you'll heed my advice more than I do myself when I say get out there and fish!