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I started fly fishing in late summer of last year so I'm still very much a beginer and I haven't totally put away the spinning rod. The past 2 weeks I have been chasing after stockies with my father like I have always traditionally done. Today it started to get a little old, even after catching a 20" rainbow. Nothing is more exciting to me than catching wild trout. After a cold morning and a relativly slow day I couldn't take it anymore, I had to switch it up and do somthing different so I decided to check out Seglock run for the fist time.
I arrived at Seglock around 1:00 pm and fished until 3:30 pm. Without knowing where to go I elected to start at the fist pull off past the posted signs
Started off with a royal wuf with a green copper john dropper. I lost 2 brookies and a very solid brown on the copper john. At this point I was pretty frustrated and just sat there to think a bit. It was during this lull that I noticed a stonefly hatch was starting and they were skittering accross the water.
As I rounded the bend to the next hole a saw a brookie take 3 flies right out of the air. I quickly looked through my fly box and tied on my best stonefly imitation along with a PT nymph for a dropper. Much to my suprise the fish ended up taking my nymph instead of the dry. This would be the case all the way up until the last hole that I fished.
With no luck on the stonefly I switched up again to an elk hair caddis and made one perfectly placed cast over the last run. Everythng happened so fast but I think that the brookie that took my fly was launching itself out of the water before my fly even touched the surface.
On they way out I ran into two spin fishermen who were just starting. I tried to ask them more about stream and how far up can I expect to catch fish but they didn't want to give up too much info but they were nice enough. I will definately be exploring the stream again.
All said and done it was a fantastic day. I fished through my fist hatch and got my fist dry fly trout of the year. I ended up with 8 trout, 6 brookies and 2 browns and lost 4 others with the biggest being a brown about 12 inches. I wasn't able to get pictures of the best fish because I didnt want to handle them too much but I hope you enjoy the photos I was able to take.
I arrived at Seglock around 1:00 pm and fished until 3:30 pm. Without knowing where to go I elected to start at the fist pull off past the posted signs
Started off with a royal wuf with a green copper john dropper. I lost 2 brookies and a very solid brown on the copper john. At this point I was pretty frustrated and just sat there to think a bit. It was during this lull that I noticed a stonefly hatch was starting and they were skittering accross the water.
As I rounded the bend to the next hole a saw a brookie take 3 flies right out of the air. I quickly looked through my fly box and tied on my best stonefly imitation along with a PT nymph for a dropper. Much to my suprise the fish ended up taking my nymph instead of the dry. This would be the case all the way up until the last hole that I fished.
With no luck on the stonefly I switched up again to an elk hair caddis and made one perfectly placed cast over the last run. Everythng happened so fast but I think that the brookie that took my fly was launching itself out of the water before my fly even touched the surface.
On they way out I ran into two spin fishermen who were just starting. I tried to ask them more about stream and how far up can I expect to catch fish but they didn't want to give up too much info but they were nice enough. I will definately be exploring the stream again.
All said and done it was a fantastic day. I fished through my fist hatch and got my fist dry fly trout of the year. I ended up with 8 trout, 6 brookies and 2 browns and lost 4 others with the biggest being a brown about 12 inches. I wasn't able to get pictures of the best fish because I didnt want to handle them too much but I hope you enjoy the photos I was able to take.
