Stream Trout Fishing Times

Do you remember the good old days of stream trout fishing

. Regardless of how old we are we seem to always remember what we consider the good old days. I remember while fly fishing in the Pentwater River in Michigan in late fall of hooking a brown trout on a streamer and more or less landing him. I say more or less landing him because when I got him up close and was able to see him he looked so beautiful that I could not kill him. He was about twenty one inches long and a beautiful native brown with the bright orange spots and all the other pretty colors of a native brown. I worked him up into shallow water and reached down with my long nose pliers and gently removed the hook and let him swim away. I forgot to mention that when I fly fish I crimp the barb down so I can release a fish very easy.

I remember years ago they used to plant rainbows in different streams. I was fishing the Au Sable river just below a dam that I called Bamfield Dam, North West of Glennie Michigan. This river is pretty big in this area but during this hot no rain summer they would close the gates on the dam and let just a little water flow through. As the water receded it would leave pools along this area. In every pool all I could see was these rainbows rising for flies that were hatching on the river. Where ever I would cast I would hook a small rainbow trout and then I would release it. I hooked so many that after a while my arm got tired and I let my back cast come down and touch the water behind me . A couple of times when this happened there were so many fish that they would grab the fly behind me. I was young then and at that time it seemed like a lot of fun.

My son Denny and I was doing some spring trout fishing on the Au Gres River just north of M55 opening day of trout season one year. We got in the river to fish and about two or three hundred yards up stream a gentleman was fishing for steel head. This fishermen had been their most of the morning and had caught nothing at all. As my son Denny entered the stream the gentlemen told to go a head and give it a try. This was a nice run, fairly deep and with a few obstacles in it. I had showed Denny t5hat when it comes to deep holes you must get down to the bottom fo those holes or will not be successful in catching the steelhead that hang out in deep runs. You Might lose a few lures but that is the only way you will catch fish. At the time we were using Mepp's Spinners and we had just changed from a silver blade with no buck tail to a black blade with a black tail because Denny had lost his only plain silver mepp's spinner . On his first cast he tied into a nice steel head. After landing it he made another cast and "Bam" he had another one on. I looked around at the guy that was fishing this hole and he gently folded up his rod and walked away without saying a word.

These are some of the things I remember and there are a lot more. I know that you have a lot of good memories of stream trout fishing from the past.

by: Eugene Killian

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