It had been two years since I last visited this small stream.
The Sage ZXL 8' 2 wt. may have been slightly long for this small place but it's one of my favorite rods.
The last time I was here the fish were about equally divided between rainbows and brook trout.
This time it was mostly rainbows. I caught a few brookies, all small. There were lots of rainbows. They were very aggressive and energetic. I lost many more than I landed.
Here are some small ones.
Then I caught the biggest one I've ever caught here - somewhere between 11 and 12 inches. Nice fish for this stream.
I was fishing with a black woolly bugger and this fish hit it and just nicked itself on the hook.
I figured it wouldn't hit that fly again so I changed to the Copper John that you can see in the picture. One drift through the pool and it grabbed it.
The water temperature was 51°, so the water in the hills is just getting where we want it.