Featured Photo: Streamer Eater on the Clinch

Featured Photo: Streamer Eater on the Clinch

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Home is Best

Every year I enjoy fishing my home water here in Tennessee, and if I'm lucky I make a trip out west to fish somewhere. Today I wrapped up my summer fishing with a trip to the Caney Fork river to see how it was faring. The results were excellent with plenty of opportunities to sight fish to nice trout.

My first fish was a solid 14 inch brown that bulldogged for awhile. After subduing that fish I continued walking slowly up the bank looking for larger fish feeding in the shallows. Not more than 20 feet above where I landed the first fish, I saw what I was looking for. A dark shadow flashed in a depression behind a weedbed betraying a good fish. I tried casting from a couple different spots before positioning myself slightly up and across from the fish. Fifteen minutes later, everything came together and I watched my dry fly indicator dive under. Gently raising the rod tip produced a violent commotion as the fish realized that all was not well. The big brown quickly went airborn causing me to hold my breath until it was back in the water and all the knots had held. Several scorching runs and another jump later, I finally guided the large trout into the shallows where I netted it. Another fisherman was kind enough to snap a couple pictures for me and then I released the nice fish to catch again in a few months.


This was the perfect end to a great summer. I couldn't have asked for anything better...

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:49 PM

    Congrats...very impressive fish! ...looking forward to reading more about your trips out west.We are headed out to Yellowstone in just a few short weeks.

    -Ryan
    (aka "rainshaker")

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  2. Awesome - that's a fine fish. I just posted a video over on our site of my brother and his father in law catching browns and cutties on the SF of the Snake River at the beginning of the salmon fly hatch - man was that a fun trip! My first real exposure to fly fishing - and as a videographer, I had an absolute blast that day! I can't say that about filming other fishing trips! :)

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  3. Ryan, you should have an awesome trip out west. It will be late enough that the crowds are basically gone...wish I could head out there later in the year but school calls...

    Tom, thanks for the kind words. I'm heading over to check out that video you posted now. Sounds like an awesome day on the river...nothing like being on the water when the bite is on...

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