Dave and I headed for a brown trout stream in our area yesterday for a couple hours and we managed to hook a few good browns on streamers. Although most of the streams in our area have been seeing some good hatches of late, there was very few bugs out and we only saw one rise all day. The neat thing about our whole experience was the sight fishing. The section of river we were on had high banks and since the water clarity is in prime shape, one of us stood atop the bank and looked for fish, while the other fished the water. We almost had to rock, paper, scissors as to who would fish and who would sight, as the sighting was in some ways more enjoyable. At one point, we hit a trough along the bank that was perfect overwintering habitat for big browns. I got the right cast and stripped /twitched my fly through the zone and a gorgeous 24" male brown swiped at it and then proceeded to follow it until it was 4 feet in front me at which point he decided to take it. Similarily, Dave had another large female that followed his streamer downstream 15 feet but then at his feet it repeatedly went after his fly 6 times, before Dave got him to really commit. One of the times, the brown took his fly in his mouth and then spat it out again, but unlike a kid who doesn't like mashed turnips, she went after it again and again . I wouldn't say it was the smartest brown in the world and was obviously enticed by the pulsing motion Dave kept giving his fly. It was real hoot watching this all unfold in the river below me.
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