What A Problem
I had never fished this stretch before. Most of it was shallow and holes were far apart. The necked water came down quite fast and dug out a nice belly on the left side near the exposed tree stump.
I am a firm believer in casting above where I think the trout are laying. It gives the presentation more of a natural look and you aren’t dropping it right on their heads. I cast up into neck approximately twenty times and was rewarded with a mixture of brooks and brown.
I was disappointed. My first cast raised a big fish. The swirl it made plastered a huge smile on my face but a brookie obviously beat it there and alerted the big. I tried to problem solve and find a solution on how to avoid the smalls if I had another such dilemma.
