. Fished several different rigs and patterns. Hopper dropper with a olive scud when cloudy. Hopper dropper with a black copper john or flashback pheasant tail when sunny/partly-sunny just whacked fish and put up numbers that left the two gentlemen that stopped to chat as I walked the pavement back to car flabbergasted when I told them how the fishing was. The black copper john was really the ticket, few would eat the hopper when the sun got higher and warmer. I'd usually be shocked when they ate the hopper after staring at it all morning waiting for it to get pulled down. Mid-afternoon to evening and early in the morning, fish would rise to a blue winged olive hatch. The mid-afternoon to evening hatches were unreal. Fish feeding with reckless abandonment with no regard to my presence or the occasional crappy cast haha. User friendly and parachute and occasionally I tied an emerger off the hook bend but they mostly wanted it on top. It was my first encounter with any sort of bug hatch and now I understand why they are sought after. Could sit on spot until you got bored of catching fish. Now for a pic dump.I really wanted to catch some colored up male brook trout. Ran into a mess of em. Here are a few nicely colored ones.
Brook stream
Lot of brown trout of course.
Pretty sure I scared a pair of spawning browns off this redd. Never seen one before but I think that is what it was at the top of a riffle. The only one I saw.
Oddly silver
Lost one or two really good ones on nymphs. One was off right away and the other I fought in a pool with wood. I tried to rise him up and away from the wood but he came up top after bulldogging me and death rolled and got off. I did land a PB brown on the fly in another deeper pool after weeding through a few smaller ones. Decent kype on him too.
I've got like 150 pics total haha. More here:
https://imgur.com/a/y74SkLL
https://imgur.com/a/coEBdHv
https://imgur.com/a/Ev053bP
https://imgur.com/a/Dv3Qt2y
