A view upstream.
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After a few hours of slogging along, I took off my gear and sat on this
downed tree to rest. Note the crazy rope hanging from the tree. I
can't figure out why its there, because there is no pool
or deep water here. You can see
my fishing vest and net sitting on the ground. My vest is sitting on
the creel that used to be my dads. The flyrod is one my dad built himself.
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This is about the best ripple I found on this stream. I was told that
there was a lot of dead water before I would reach some good pools, but
I am unwilling to invest the rest of the day to try and find it.
I decided to forsake East Beaver and return to my
car and find somewhere else to fish.
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All I have to do is return to the tree line and stike out across the
old farm fields to reach a the road I drove in on. I can walk this road
to my car. I will have walked in a large circle.
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The gravel roads follow the contour of the valleys. I remember my hip boots
making an audible "crunch crunch" as I walked along.
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Click on this picture to see the turkey vulture, a familiar sight
in the skies over a Minnesota trout
stream valley.
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I stopped in a little town at the local bar. I went inside and asked the patrons
if they knew of a place near town to fish. One gentleman told me of a place near
town. I found the place easily enough and found a big bend in the stream where
trout seemed to be feeding. Casting across the width of the stream I tried
several wet flies until I found one they seemed to like. This brown trout was
the result. I got hung up across the stream and lost my fly - a light gray
nymph. I had no further bites.
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This isn't the greatest close up of a brown trout, but you can see the
red spots along the sides and a lack of spots on the tail.
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Walking up to the road, I spotted this deer who has come out in the
early evening to begin feeding. See him in the center of the picture?
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Another photo except using the zoom lens.
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Here is the view off the other side of the bridge. This
kind of stream shoreline is very enjoyable to fish because there is plenty
of flat ground with no tall weeds or trees or shrubs behind you
when your line goes behind you as you cast. I fished up to the bend
in the stream you see here and then walked back in the growing dark.
The bar patrons fishing spot was a good one.
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