Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (stickleyboy) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:41:13 GMT

My current love is the wonderfully named Dry River, west of Harrisonburg. Hunting through all the subtle lies is more fun than I've ever had fishing.

You should see the Green Drake Hatch. Jim

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (TheMontyMan) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:06:23 GMT

I've been chasing the Salmon Fly hatch up the Deschutes River this spring, having lots of fun. Here's a good example of a fish that made a whole day of bushwhacking and dodging rattly critters worthwhile...

. . . and here's one of the 2 rattly critters that I almost stepped on in one day...

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (freestoner) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:24:41 GMT

If you've fished for trout in the Shenandoahs, there's a good chance you know this place

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (winston59) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:43:27 GMT

I like to fish this with my Edwards 4wt... though my best day was with a rebuilt Montague Rapidan on Dry Flies, fishing size 18 BWO's that were coming off the water.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (nativebrownie) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:48:26 GMT

Truly Gorgeous - my haunts are similar, but perhaps missing some of this grandeur...

I especially like the shots of these beautiful natives as you can see the care of the quick release - either left in the water or lightly held for a speedy return to the depths... Just my preference, these elegant jewels deserve that respect - nicely, nicely done.

NB

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Marty) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:44:46 GMT

Dugdan truly beautiful stream fish and prose. Some of you gentlemen are both phenomenal poets and photographers!!! I'd have to say that "drawing one's soul inward" is one of the most apt descriptions of the feeling I get in the tunnel of laurels working a small pool. I'd also have to say that of the "trophy" pics I have framed (all released thanks very much) the 10" brookie from another trip up high is even more special to me than the 36" brown...

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (jz2) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:46:26 GMT

here is a local SoCal stream and Hollywood Trout - caught with a flyrod built by a board member who is a fan of small mountain streams.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (dugdan) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:01:36 GMT

Within the reach of our most populous state's millions, but gladly beyond the grasp of those who disdain exertion for fish so small, wild trout endure. Their homes are the hidden refugia of steep canyons, perhaps not large by comparison to more well-watered climes, but miraculous in the dry montains and drier basins.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (freestoner) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:44:49 GMT

The pictures of the fish are pretty. The pictures of the streams are overwhelming. The beauty of an upstream shot of a headwaters stream is like viewing the gates of Heaven.

Maybe I'm just saying that because I haven't yet managed to snap a decent fish pic of my own.

I do have several showing a taut line and a blurred fl`ash just under the surface.

The Drake magazine on-line forum has a page for exactly that category of photos.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (nativebrownie) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:03:39 GMT

Watercolorman,

Gorgeous pics of a special place... must be nice...

NB

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (bswild) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:45:07 GMT

That's the style! So often, the larger rivers get so tiresome: too crowded with rude anglers, stressed fish that refuse even the natural mayfly, all the driving while looking for a place to stop where there aren't 10 Scandinavian cars already parked. That's what "big water" fly fishing has too often become. And the old, genteel manners that were once ascribed to fly fishermen--don't get me started on this--are out-the-window. When I've had enough, I go to my...

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (smills) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:31:39 GMT

no type of snobbery intended, but personally I would take a micro native wild trout over any size non-native or non-wild any day. there is just something about fish in their proper environment that I think is really beautiful. a few months back some friends and I were poking around oregon looking for steelies, and I have to admit that the little twelve inch coastal cuttie was as awesome as a 30" inch steelie without its adipose (may have been a different story if he had his...

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (WatercolorMan) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:17:48 GMT

I love the fact that I can get here in an hour from the house.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Eric Peper) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:15:47 GMT

Here's a lovely little wild rainbow form the West Fork of the Madison -- a fun place to fish when the spruce moths are falling out of the trees.

EP

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (quashnet) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:17:51 GMT

In answer to Short Tip's question, the fish shown is a sea-run trout, very late in the fall, probably post-spawn, caught only a few hundred yards up from tidewater. Here is what these fish look like now - fatter, darker, small head in relation to the body. This one was caught June 3, during a hatch of #18 cream mayflies. Unlike in the fall, the trees are fully leaved and it's very dark in the woods - hard to get a decent photo. Rod is PHY Midge serial #3622, built 1958.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:23:52 GMT

Northen Patagonia, small stream... small wild brook.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Marty) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:26:26 GMT

Lovely waters and lovely fish. Even in fall our brookies don't get that dark and have more of a greenish tint to them. Our wild bows have a very very green back as well amazing what the different waters produce. I think the angels must sit around painting these fish on their off days.

I wish we had more wild fish but most of our bigger rivers are stocked but at least there are holdovers and in a few there are spawning populations that are growing.

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Short Tip) — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:35:45 GMT

Afgantrout, we'll talk tomorrow. Nice pics and pretty trillium!

Thanks Dennis. That last pic is from your turf, up near Silver Gate.........

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (firehole) — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:32:40 GMT

Short Tip,
I'm glad to see my FET Dirigo which I once owned has found a nice home and doing what it does best catching fish.

Nice fish and rods guys.

Since I fish Montana streams most of the time all my fish are wild.

Dennis

Re: Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (afgantrout) — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:51:01 GMT

ShortTip, I just sent you an E, then I saw this thread...Lovely fishes! Lovely small waters! Quashnet, that fontinalis of yours is exquisite!

Wild or Special Fish

feeds@yuku.com (Marty) — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:59:19 GMT

Got an opportunity to go to east TN and fish for wild fish up high with my Granger 7030 this weekend. A group of us camped and took turns after splitting up. The water was perfect and the fish very willing to take a tnwulff or elk hair. Fishing these small streams for wild fish is a real blast and they are a real challenge. For me they are also a reminder that bigger is not always better. Even got into some native brookies as we got further up. That 7ft rod paired with a 4wt silk line...