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Ugly Place
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Cattle everywhere.....
banks trampled down...
electric fence across the water.
First cast after the photo I caught a 21 inch brown from under the root wad caught on the fence.
and a really nice brookie just 20 yards up further.
Sometimes the old adage of "Trout Don't Live In Ugly Places" is wrong.
The only reason I fished this at all is that there was a huge spring emptying in 100 yards upstream.
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And sometimes your definition of "Ugly" needs to be tweaked. Cows are great animals, I thank them for milk, cheese and various cuts of meat, not to mention the boots I have on and the belt keeping my pants from being at the top of my boots. That area reminds me of the farm I lived on until I was 10 years old.
By the way, don't pee on the electric fence.
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Seems like a great place to try the traditional Cowdung wet fly.
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Looks like a nice home for trout and cattle. I'd have fished it too. Glad you did and shared it too.
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You were just Crick Fishing. According to an old Patrick McManus article, it takes cows to turn a creek into a crick.
Ed
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Love McManus and that article.....BTW, it's called "How to Fish a Crick", and it's in his book "A Fine and Pleasant Misery".
If anyone has never read his books, they are collections of his articles from Field & Stream. I recently re-discovered him an reading the articles takes me back to the 1970's, when I read ones I distinctly remember reading in F&S back then. All flyfishermen should read his stuff. You will laugh like Hell....
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In "They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?", there is a funny one entitled "Tying My Own." Every flytier, especially older guys like me, should read it...Hilarious...