Saturday April 27th 2011. We fished a body of water under the broken nose of an old man and we caught an awful lot of very large brookies. It was our first trip since Oscar died. Oscar was our dog of 12 years. We think he had a word with the fish gods because they threw us a really big bone this time. Everything was down deep on bead head nymphs and streamers. It was cold and at times it was wet but it was great early season fishing. A couple of these fish looked to be around 5 pounds.

Ice out was about a week ago so we froze our ... it was jolly cold in the water.


This is one of the 5 pounders I caught. One was a big male with a deep belly and the other was a longer female.

You can just about see the fly ... a smallish bead head nymph with a little red on it. Ethan tied it the night before. The fish were all stockers probably put in right after ice out.

One of the smaller males.