Another fine day in a beautiful area catching some beautiful brown trout. Nothing big but that’s ok.
This was the biggest fish I landed. I think there were two I had on briefly that may have been bigger. They hit a big barbless hopper. They were jumpers and threw the hook.
Caught one trout and lost one fishing a hopper in these riffles.
Fished the Timber-Coulee today and did ok. Maybe 10 strikes. Caught 5 little browns. They loved a nymph called an Orange Coulee Scud I bought at The Driftless Angler in June. Then a tree loved it. So after finishing fishing I went to The Driftless Angler. Very nice and helpful guy. He said “yeah tie a Chernobyl Hopper on and then tie an arms length piece of 5X tippet to the bend of the hook. Tie the Orange Coulee Scud to the tippet as a dropper. You’ll catch fish all day”. There were a lot of big hoppers about and I saw what looked like a dragonfly hatch. Don’t know if it works that way with dragonflies.
We shall see about the fishing.
Fall isn’t too far off. Very comfortable fishing in waders wearing a fly vest. Never broke a sweat. Forecast for the next 8 days looking perfect, highs in mid 70s, lows in mid 50s , and partly sunny.
Fly patterns used to have pretty dull names such as an Adams or a Light Cahill or a Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear.
Today some smart ass tiers come up with much better names such as a Chernobyl Ant or a Home Invader.
I may have mentioned this some time ago.
No phone signal but there is a little park building about 100 yards away that has WiFi I can connect to. Haven’t seen anyone in the building.
The grill was a retirement gift from work. Works out great. No mess.
In the distance on the right is the building that has hot showers and cold toilets. In the distance on the left is my nearest neighbor’s trailer. He stopped by. He’s been coming here to fish for 20 years.
