{"id":56,"date":"2012-05-13T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:54:36","slug":"stalking-more-brookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/2012\/05\/13\/stalking-more-brookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalking More Brookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was lots more grading to do\u2014so more breaks were necessary. The weather got better and I returned to an area near the scene of the last brookie success. My goal was to discover some new holes by hiking up river, and boy did I find some beautiful spots:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i706.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww63\/Barukh_ha_dag\/Intel_5_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shangri La of Brook Trout Habitat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I fished a hole right above here and hooked up big on a streamer fished low and slow\u2014missed. Went back to the well and did it again a bit later. Not wanting to lose the fish again, I did the rod-over-the-head thing. It was a good fish and I played it for five minutes and more. There was so much line at my feet that I&#8217;d stripped that I decided to &#8220;play it safe&#8221; and spool some in to avoid tripping. This is always a bad idea and I don&#8217;t know why I try it. Sure enough\u2014boom. Fish off. I hiked above and no other fish that day other than a small guy but I did locate some great terrain.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days later I returned to a nearby hole. The rain splashed on the windshield all the way up and I was glad. As soon as I arrived it stopped&#8211;not optimal for the nymphing I was planning on. Seven fish and three monster brook trout landed. On the first, I drifted a quite hairy caddis emerger over a likely rock into some deep current. I used tungsten putty weight for the first time. And as soon as the line extended downward and had barely begun to drift:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i706.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww63\/Barukh_ha_dag\/Another_5_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Nice Long Maine Brook Trout\u201418 Plus Inches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Changing Flies to a streamer with lots of weight after things slowed down produced this kyper:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i706.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww63\/Barukh_ha_dag\/Kyper_5_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Healthy Guy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My favorite picture of the day was this release&#8211;a brilliant but completely accidental piece of camera work. As so often happens when fishing by yourself, the fish slips out of your hand as you&#8217;re trying to get the shot. This time, the result was Escape from Alcatraz:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i706.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww63\/Barukh_ha_dag\/Escape_5_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houdini Brookie Escapes the Bank Safe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That was a great day. In the run-up to our yearly Grand Lake Stream landlocked salmon hunting adventure, I will be out this week honing skills and practicing hypo-thermic exposure. Looking forward to fishing with Wild Bill, and should hear soon about Mac&#8217;s own quest on local waters\u2014his own tune up for the Great Journey Northward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was lots more grading to do\u2014so more breaks were necessary. The weather got better and I returned to an area near the scene of the last brookie success. My goal was to discover some new holes by hiking up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/2012\/05\/13\/stalking-more-brookies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/fishing-professor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}