Angling Report: January 2005 Lake Brunner Fly Fishing Report
Although January continued wet and windy for the first 3
weeks, the fishing stayed good throughout. The last week of
the month, summer arrived in all its glory and within a
couple of days the air was alive with the sound of cicadas!
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| Mary Nishioka holds up a nice brown trout
from the lower Ahaura River, on a wet and windy
day in mid-January, 2005. Below, Mary is in action on a
little West Coast creek, connected to a very
nice fish. |
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| Mary has written an account of her
adventures in New Zealand, and this can be found
on the "Peninsula Fly Fishers of Northern
California" web site,
click here
to read it. |
Later in the month, when the cicadas were in full cry,
Mark Stevenson and friend Peter came in for a 2 day campout
trip. Both were at an early stage in their fly fishing
careers, and enjoyed the opportunity to cast to lots of
cruising brown trout. Myself, I was really enjoying NOT
wearing my parka for a change!
The end of the month was also nice and fine the
cicadas continued and Jeremy Weitz, here for a week, enjoyed
some excellent days on the river. Sunblock, sun hats... thin
shirts... it really was summer!
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| Now here is a man after my own heart
-serious about fishing - who will endure any
hardship to get within casting distance of a big
trout... that one escaped unscathed, but the
next one learned a valuable lesson! |
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| Different river, bigger fish... this trout
took Jeremy for a long run downriver, some 150
yards over boulders, rod high and trying to
not get to the end of the backing!
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| The successful outcome of that battle was
this 5lb brown, quickly posed for a photo before
release. Below, the crystal clear water of a
West Coast mountain stream offers the promise of
huge trout lurking among the boulders. |
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Angling Report:
January
2005 Lake Brunner Fly Fishing Report
                                
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