Millsertime
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I travel regularly with my job and normally bring my FF gear with me. It seems there are trout in most states even the ones you’d least expect. I thought I’d dump some photos from some of my work/FF trips this year so far.
March – Bonefishing in Hawaii. I caught one small bone off Hickam flats which is the entrance of Pearl Harbor. This was my first saltwater experience with a fly rod. I can’t say I enjoyed it much. I prefer running water and dense vegetation much more.
April – Who would have thought there were wild trout in Oklahoma? My job brought me to OKC but the closest wild fishery was all the way to southeast OK near Broken Bow (4-5 hour drive each way). I fished the Lower Mountain Fork River below Broken Bow Dam. It is a wild brown and rainbow trout fishery along with stocking. The wild bows/browns I caught were small/feisty but colorful and the stocked bows were large and sluggish. I enjoyed the fishing but the weekend crowds were not for me. By the afternoon, it was difficult to find an open stretch of water to fish alone even if I walked far away from the parking lots.
May – Wild trout in the cornhusker state. I traveled to Omaha Nebraska but I fished the east branch of the Verdigre Creek over the weekend in northeast Nebraska. It’s a spring creek in corn country and holds wilds browns and stocked bows. Beautiful stream with lots of scuds. The browns offer technical fishing while the bows were pretty simple.
June – Black Hills of South Dakota. I love fishing the Black Hills because it’s where I cut my FF teeth. This trip I fished Rapid Creek and Castle Creek. Both are Black Hills tailwater streams and have good populations of wild browns/brooks and supplemented stocked bows. My time on Rapid Creek was only the 1/2 hour of daylight and I got skunked. I fished Castle Creek below Deerfield Lake and caught 1 brown on a dry fly. Included picture is of Castle Creek as I didn’t take a picture of Rapid Creek. Both are beautiful streams with the smell of pine throughout the air. The Black Hills remind me of the Pocono’s except with coniferous trees. I also did some river fishing on the Missouri River and kept most of the fish for an evening fish fry.
I’ll be in Germany in July, then Alaska in August for salmon/grayling. I’ll post more pictures then.
March – Bonefishing in Hawaii. I caught one small bone off Hickam flats which is the entrance of Pearl Harbor. This was my first saltwater experience with a fly rod. I can’t say I enjoyed it much. I prefer running water and dense vegetation much more.
April – Who would have thought there were wild trout in Oklahoma? My job brought me to OKC but the closest wild fishery was all the way to southeast OK near Broken Bow (4-5 hour drive each way). I fished the Lower Mountain Fork River below Broken Bow Dam. It is a wild brown and rainbow trout fishery along with stocking. The wild bows/browns I caught were small/feisty but colorful and the stocked bows were large and sluggish. I enjoyed the fishing but the weekend crowds were not for me. By the afternoon, it was difficult to find an open stretch of water to fish alone even if I walked far away from the parking lots.
May – Wild trout in the cornhusker state. I traveled to Omaha Nebraska but I fished the east branch of the Verdigre Creek over the weekend in northeast Nebraska. It’s a spring creek in corn country and holds wilds browns and stocked bows. Beautiful stream with lots of scuds. The browns offer technical fishing while the bows were pretty simple.
June – Black Hills of South Dakota. I love fishing the Black Hills because it’s where I cut my FF teeth. This trip I fished Rapid Creek and Castle Creek. Both are Black Hills tailwater streams and have good populations of wild browns/brooks and supplemented stocked bows. My time on Rapid Creek was only the 1/2 hour of daylight and I got skunked. I fished Castle Creek below Deerfield Lake and caught 1 brown on a dry fly. Included picture is of Castle Creek as I didn’t take a picture of Rapid Creek. Both are beautiful streams with the smell of pine throughout the air. The Black Hills remind me of the Pocono’s except with coniferous trees. I also did some river fishing on the Missouri River and kept most of the fish for an evening fish fry.
I’ll be in Germany in July, then Alaska in August for salmon/grayling. I’ll post more pictures then.
