Singlebarbed Goes “Brownlining”
By Tom Chandler on Aug 25, 2007 in Underground Entertainment
If chasing trout in tiny, remote alpine streams is considered “bluelining,” then we’re officially designating the urban, warmwater version of the same practice as “brownlining.”
Singlebarbed — former Underground gadfly and current Underground Writer’s Network blogger — finally steals a few minutes and goes exploring right around his house. He hits the jackpot, finding a small warmwater stream containing sunfish, smallies, carp — even a kind of whitefish (frankly, it looks pretty good to us).
I was about a mile and half from my house on the maiden foray into “Effluent Creek”, figuring evening would be a good scout trip. This is actually lower Cache Creek, it doesn’t resemble much where I fish it, but it’s close, has water, and may hold something with fins.
I had done the initial investigation last week, mentioned in an earlier post.
Now I was equipped with a rod, and a fist sized hole in my waders, about 18″ up the calf. It was about 100 degrees out, so the left pants leg full of water was welcome.
With about 30? of water under the far bank, I started flipping nymphs under the alder branches. I spooked some large carp in the process, figuring they would be fun to catch. After leaving a couple of nymphs in trees I felt like I was really fishing.
A 10? smallmouth is my new best friend. After landing the first fish, I felt even better, smallmouth bass, about 5″ long. Smallmouth? This creek shows promise…
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