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Made our annual trip into the bush for opener. As usual we avoided the steelhead crowds and headed for thick cover and feisty browns.


Road to nowhere....


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Camp made....time for beer!


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Bruce County beef cooked the way it should be...


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Morning comes pretty early. The night was relatively warm at about 5 degrees, we kept the fire stoked all night for added warmth. We're up around 7 gearing up. Lots of water in the river and we're all pretty pumped to start the season. Justin pulls his trusty 5wt out of hiding only to find this......


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He was stuck using his 9 foot steelhead rod for the day...not fun on this creek...


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Needless to say, he wasn't going to let a busted rod stop him from fishing.


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The rest of the weekend was perfect. Aside from the bright sun in the afternoons putting a lot of the fish down, we managed a few and had a great time. Nothing huge, but plenty of feisty fish to keep us busy. Largest fish was around 16" that flipped me the bird at my feet before I could capture him and put him in my camera.


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Merry Fishmas y'all!! I'm back up there tonight through sunday. Should be prime dry fly time now....
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What a great looking creek! Impressive pics too. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.

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Great pictures, really describes what it is like where you were - just beautiful!

 

That sucks about the rod tho, but it didn't stop you guys from fishing and catching :)

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Everything my opening days would be in a perfect world Dave, less the broken rod of course.

Thanks for sharing, I'm still gaga over the stream, trying to recall if I waded it myself decades back. ;)

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