Fall trout fishing Saturday with the boys

I took the boys out as we’re located near some awesome streams. We find it enjoyable as the season starts in April and by now all the die hards are done. No pressure we have it to ourselves we walk about half mile in off this dirt road and we walk and fish up stream to a old quarry from turn of the century that parralels a state forest.

We have good luck by this old narrow gauge railroad trestle the fast water breaks to a slow current and the trout hang in the deep slow water conserving energy,We use ultralight gear as we fish yesterday we caught I think eight between the three of us in about two hours. But then it started to sleet and I said let’s wrap it up guys. Ice and branches falling is a concern, I smile when I see my guys catching a nice rainbow or brown trout.

I hear locals that tell me years ago this stream that we fish was loaded with natives brook trout. I remember catching natives in the 1970s and 80s back home in Appalachia. Today they are just stocked trout that wash down from the lake in state park. I’d love for these guys to be able to experience catching native brook trout. And we head out to the car in our chest waders we’re having casual conversation perhaps about a trout that we turned and we didn’t set the hook man dad that thing had to been monster huge I think it was a brownie I smile and say yea I saw you fighting it.