Here fishy ( not you Karen )
Glenn -
The summer of '06 I fished a neat wild trout fishery in the Central Mountains of Idaho several times.
There was one spot where the creek split and then came back together with a really hard current on my left side and a really soft current coming in on the right side. Where they merged the left branch was maybe 5-6' across and the right branch was a bit smaller. The currents formed a relatively deep hole at the point where they merged. There was a lot of streamside foliage, so there was a partial canopy over the hole, and even with a 7'6" rod you couldn't really cast, but could just flip the fly out on to the water.
Three out of four times I fished that spot, I put a big wullf pattern on to the soft water on the right side and left it drift to the seam. When it hit the seam, the currents pulled it down. After it had been sucked down about a foot, a good size rainbow came up from the bottom of the hole and took the fly.
There is no doubt that that was the same fish - the only 17" rainbow I had caught in that creek. There were some other fishies close to that size, but this was the biggest one I had caught there. Each time it was exactly the same take at exactly the same point, and after he took the fly, he ran downstream, I followed him to a point I could control him, and I landed and released him in almost exactly the same spot.
So it was deja vu all over again. And it was just as much fun the third time as the first time. Getting to that spot on the creek to fish it that way again filled a delightful anticipation, and getting that big old trout to take the same fly the same way three out of four times was just dandy.
John