03-12-2011, 05:02 AM
It had been over 4 months since I last made it out, and finally the weather was warm and dry on my day off. I decided to see how The Blacksmith Fork was fishing. I tried some areas I haven't really fished, maybe I should have gone to my old standby stretches. I ended up with 8 browns[inline "brown small.JPG"] 2 whitefish [inline "whitey 3 small.JPG"][inline "whitey small.JPG"]one small cutthroat[inline "cutt small.JPG"] and missed or lost a few more.
Most of the fish took Copper John's, green and black being the most productive. I did fish a dry dropper in some of the pocket water and shallower runs and scored a brown on a Turk's. I also had one slowly rise up and grab the dry and then shake it like a dog. Somehow I missed him, but it was cool to see.
The browns were very acrobatic, and the whitefish were just being weird. I kept running into pods of them in very shallow, fast, clean bottomed stretches. There were some bwos coming off sporadically, and I did see a few risers. Overall it just felt good to be out in the warm sun enjoying nature again. To top it all off, on the way back to the car I ran into this critter: [inline "moose small.JPG"][inline "moose 2 small.JPG"]
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Most of the fish took Copper John's, green and black being the most productive. I did fish a dry dropper in some of the pocket water and shallower runs and scored a brown on a Turk's. I also had one slowly rise up and grab the dry and then shake it like a dog. Somehow I missed him, but it was cool to see.
The browns were very acrobatic, and the whitefish were just being weird. I kept running into pods of them in very shallow, fast, clean bottomed stretches. There were some bwos coming off sporadically, and I did see a few risers. Overall it just felt good to be out in the warm sun enjoying nature again. To top it all off, on the way back to the car I ran into this critter: [inline "moose small.JPG"][inline "moose 2 small.JPG"]
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