Really glad I took some time to get out this weekend. I fished the Yellow Breeches in Boiling Springs, and was among many other anglers enjoying the warm weather. Not to mention dozens of hikers, families, and a family photoshoot.
It was a great way to finish up 2015, as I doubt I'll get out again with the holidays ending. Hooked up early with a pretty little rainbow. Small enough that I wondered if it was a native. Anyone know if rainbows spawn in the breeches? Next fish was even smaller, and definitely a gem of a wild brown. They both liked an egg that I was trailing behind a BH walts worm.
Covered a lot of other water with no result before I managed to birdnest my leader with one of those awkward casts that has you wondering how it's possible to tangle a leader so badly. After a minute of trying to figure out how to untangle, I cut everything off and switched to deaddrifting and swinging a white BH bugger with a little blue flash.
No luck and a few holes later, I thought I had snagged bottom in a fast riffle along an undercut. Then the snag rolled and took off. Two nice runs and a few tense seconds of thinking I'd break off on a rock, I netted my first ever 20"+ brown - taped in at just under 21".
Can't think of a better way to close out a year that included my first fish on my own tie, some excellent evenings chasing the sulphur hatch, and prospecting a few new waters. Hope you all got out and fished on a glorious weekend!
