Early Season, Fuck Yeah!

Dates: March 9, 2009
Location: EPB&G Spot
Air temp: 30s
Water temp: 36
Hatches: ?
Fish landed: 15 or 16 browns


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

QD
Xan


I took the day off to join QD for some trout. Driving by spots around town, we were surprised by the number of folks on the stream. We arrived at the EP spot to find only one person in the parking lot and another two arriving shortly after.

Some considerable work has happened here since last September. An area between the parking lot and river has been cleared out, leveled, and adorned with three concrete mousin' stations.

A short hike downstream from the parking lot and I was into my first trout of the season, a brown around 14". The second fish took a while to materialize, and we then hiked down to fish between the crossings. Through the tea stained water came trout. Browns, in the 12-14" range. Hike down to the next run and repeat. I quickly hit double digits, and QD landed around 5. I was even able to get one while stripping a bugger, which makes me wonder what a non-fisher would think when reading that.

As the sun started to set, we went back to the parking lot and fished from the mousin' stations a bit, before calling it quits and getting some curry. Huzzah.