Wild brook trout trip report. I arrived at Mortimer late Wednesday and pitched the tent and settled in for the night. Thursday hit the upper DH section just down from Lost Cove. Lots of brook trout still in the stream like this guy. I didn’t see too many anglers releasing fish and there were lots of spinner baits being tossed into the stream.

Friday hiked into the upper Wilson Creek with my 3 WT. I had forgotten how slippery the rocks are and found myself more than once on my rear wet wadding, but it was a nice way to cool off on such a hot day.

Managed a few wild rainbows on a small copper john. I hooked one nice 14″ rainbow on an orange squirmy wormie  Had him almost to the net when I lost my footing on some rocks and jerked the 6X line breaking him off. The wild rainbows are beautiful.

Not a bad day despite my clumsiness-maybe cause I’m getting too old!
Did treat myself to a nice cold ice cream on the way back to Mortimer.

Trout fishing brooks and browns. So I went out at first light this morning and caught 18.
The trout below was an amazing battler. It flew downstream and then buried itself in the bank twice. I swang and missed three times on netting attempts. I and got in 12 inches of water and shook the size 10 black bugger with green crystal flash. It was NOT quite fast enough. I swooped in with my BIG net and netted it before it could escape.

I had a good mixture of brown trout and brook trout but by noon the sun was high in the sky and the trout shut down.

I went out fly fishing this last weekend and found two “new” small streams. All in all a great weekend both days together we managed about 65 fish. ENJOY!

Yellow Sally

Slingshot never fails

Day 2 started off with bad weather