Pocono Saturday

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Fished my favorite Pocono stream today under overcast skies and mild temperatures. The leaf situation is now pretty much under control and the river levels are low but fishable.
I came upon one run that yielded a nice number of fish. Most came on a Graphic Caddis dropper in size 14 and the balance on various other patterns from Rubber Leg Stones to PT's and Quill nymphs.
I also lost two fair fish on a Drunk and Disorderly (as per the ones I tied for the swap) and had one small brown commit suicide on an olive Sex Dungeon.
Here are a couple of the browns.
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Now here was a surprise. A rainbow in a non stocked brown trout river.
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After catching the rainbow I decided to try another section of river before I headed home.

After arriving at the next spot, I walked up to the first riffle and made three drifts with a PT point fly and Graphic Caddis dropper. What happened next still has me shaking my head. I hooked what I thought was a big brown and when the fish went airborne on the first jump I liked to fall down when I saw it was a steelhead, I mean a huge rainbow.
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The fish measured just over 22 inches and was fat as a pig. Somebody tell me where in the hell this fish came from.......

 

[MACFLY]

Nice I was trying desperately detach myself from work yesterday' to go and fish. That second brown Looks stellar.

 

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Nice I was trying desperately detach myself from work yesterday' to go and fish. That second brown Looks stellar.

Yea, me too. I had made plans to play hooky from work yesterday but one of my customers had a different plan for me. Lucky today worked out like it did..

The browns were ok, but nothing to write home about. I think the one I dropped on the D&D was probably the largest, in the size range of about 18-20. The rainbow was the treat of the day.

 

[lightenup]

The fish measured just over 22 inches and was fat as a pig. Somebody tell me where in the hell this fish came from.......

Well son, in the spring rainbow trout boys and rainbow trout girls get together...one shimmies its tail fin and the other gets aroused.....eggs get dropped and milt gets mixed in and little baby rainbow trout get made.....they begin to eat and grow and some even become quite large under the correct circumstances.....ok, now please, always wear a condom until you are married.....)

 

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Well son, in the spring rainbow trout boys and rainbow trout girls get together...one shimmies its tail fin and the other gets aroused.....eggs get dropped and milt gets mixed in and little baby rainbow trout get made.....they begin to eat and grow and some even become quite large under the correct circumstances.....ok, now please, always wear a condom until you are married.....)

LU, I think you need more stream time...........