Oatka Creek Brown Trout
Sometimes it’s when you least expect it.
I was wading the Oatka in the Park section, just (and I mean feet) below the downed bridge. I had on a big Adams, size 10 I think, skating it in the rapids below the bridge. Unconventional, I know, but I’ve found it to be effective when other things aren’t working.
Anyhow, I’ve got 20 feet of line in the water downstream of me, and I’m staring upstream, looking for risers, as some bugs had started to come off.
GO-WHAM!
The rod yanks almost out of my hand as I’m ignoring it. I turn quickly and do “due diligence”… I fought the fish for a minute or so I’d say, as it was a decent brown trout (12″ and change), and he was firmly entrenched in the heaviest water on that part of the creek.
Got him in and released him quickly, making my day.
So the fly was totally submerged, just drifting in the current from side to side when he took it.
Beats me. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that trout was thinking.
