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I hit a little gem of a stream today outfitted with a 7 ft St. Croix and some dry flies. The morning produced no fish but later in the afternoon offered some good top-water action. Here's a brown (wild?) I caught on an Adams (#16). I also saw plenty of skunk cabbage--Spring's coming.
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Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
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"Most anglers spend their lives in making rules for trout, and trout spend theirs in breaking them."
-From Letters to Young Fly-Fishers, (1926) Sir George Aston,
-From Letters to Young Fly-Fishers, (1926) Sir George Aston,
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Re: Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
That is a wild browns.
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Re: Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
It's small enough to be one and has some decent parrs/color plus good-looking fins. It also swam for shelter under some river detritus once hooked; I wonder what that says about its survival instincts vs those of a stocked fish?
"Most anglers spend their lives in making rules for trout, and trout spend theirs in breaking them."
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Re: Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
Survival instincts over stocked fish? More likely just survival instinct regardless of stock or wild. Those that have it, lives to survive another day, those that don’t becomes a meal. That’s how natural selection works.BiggerThomas wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:35 amIt's small enough to be one and has some decent parrs/color plus good-looking fins. It also swam for shelter under some river detritus once hooked; I wonder what that says about its survival instincts vs those of a stocked fish?
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Re: Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
their fitness levels are higher. That is why for sticking fingerlings or advanced fingerlings. They have higher fitness levels.BiggerThomas wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:35 amIt's small enough to be one and has some decent parrs/color plus good-looking fins. It also swam for shelter under some river detritus once hooked; I wonder what that says about its survival instincts vs those of a stocked fish?
Re: Dry Fly Fishing 3_14_2020
I was out yesterday afternoon. Landed a Brown on a black soft hackle, switched to a small elk-hair caddis when I saw a few hatching, hooked another Brown but lost it. Also saw small LBS about a size 18 or 20.
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