Had to pick up my son at school (go Dukes) and left early enough to get about 2 hrs to fish a local spring creek. Water was a bit cloudy, word I got from 2 other fishermen was cattle crossing upstream; guess the electric fences were down. Ended up with 2 dinks, a few refusals and a decent pull.
Barns
Farms
and critters
a nice spot to rig up
starting gate
live wire; make sure you have proper clearance when you step over, otherwise you’ll be singing like a castrati
random holes
spooked a nice one here
Packed it up, picked up the boy and homeward bound. He actually stayed awake the whole way back; we had a lot to catch up on.
Looked at the first photo below the barns and told my wife it has to be M***Y Creek. Sure enough, as I recognized the rest of the area. Haven’t fished it in a few years now though. Have a photo of my old fishing buddy I took while standing in the parking lot across the bridge and he was fishing the little run just downstream from the bridge. Quite a challenging place to wet a fly without collecting some of the streams namesake!
Good call GMM and yes, it is a challenging stream; hooked my biggest brown trout ever there a few years back on a deer-hair beetle (although I lost it under a cut-bank). John, when we were up in the Sweetgrass this past summer, I was amazed by all the spring creeks that flowed through my father-in-law’s old homestead; none this big and I didn’t see any fish but they were beautiful nonetheless.
