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.
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.
Seems like a great place to try the traditional Cowdung wet fly.
Looks like a nice home for trout and cattle. I’d have fished it too. Glad you did and shared it too.
You were just Crick Fishing. According to an old Patrick McManus article, it takes cows to turn a creek into a crick.
Ed
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…
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…