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| Bob takes a few last casts before calling it a night |
This past Friday I finally got out to do a little fly
fishing.
I met up with my good friend Bob Burrows on Oatka creek for
a little night fishing. The goal was to find some big trout, and maybe a few
bass and pike, while tossing mouse patterns and big streamers.
The stream gauge was reading right at 2.45 CFS which meant
we would be fishing in low clear water – near perfect conditions for tossing
flies at night.
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| 17-18" inch brown taken on a deer hair and rabbit strip streamer |
The fishing wasn’t easy, especially when you are limited by
what you can see, or for that matter, what you can’t see. You become more
reliant on your other senses. A practice that takes some getting used to. At
least we had a little help from the bridge lights from time to time.
We did manage some nice fish for our efforts. On the night,
we landed two rock bass, one pike and one brown trout.
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| Fishing with a little help from the bridge lights |
All fish where taken while fishing large streamer patterns that where
fished just under the surface with a slow but steady retrieve.
Hopefully I’ll get a few more cracks at these inland trout
before we start to gear up for the fall migration of lake run salmon and trout
into our local tributaries.
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| 1 of 2 rock bass on the night |
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| 26-27" inch Northern Pike |
Until then….tight lines!
