What Big Browns Like: Obnoxious Flies

Again, headed for the creek at about 4:30pm and got there a little after 5pm. Just the six weight rod (really a 5wt, but loaded with a 6wt line) and the box of big flies (nothing else to tempt me away from chucking--like smaller, rising fish) and hiked and hiked pitching the fly at any woody debris, deep riffle-run, or preferably one of those deep green bend pools. This one came out of the bend pool on a brown bugger with a cone head and yellow rubber legs.

Note the kype. All of the larger fish have been big males and it may be that they are getting near the spawn and are feeling a little more fiesty.

This was another fish taken in low light, but not in the dark. I've been having trouble find fish in the dark. Part of the problem is that the rivers have changed so much and I haven't been scouting out the new spots before hand.