spencerhicks
08-08-2009, 05:37 PM
Hey guys,
A few of my buddies and I went to Pigeon river country these past few days for a backpacking/fishing trip. I didn't have high expectations for the fishing given the fish kill last year, but figured it would be relaxing and we'd get lucky to catch anything. Boy was I surprised. About 20 minutes in I drifted a small parachute next to a log and boom, nice little brookie. I thought that was it for the day but we kept moving downriver. As we reached a bend, my buddy fishing a small spinner hit one in a hole, I told him to cast again 3 feet to the right and he had another brookie. I moved downstream to a riffle behind an overhanging tree and as I was changing patterns he got another out of the tail part of the hole. My first cast to the tail of the riffle yielded a strong take, the fish took off like a torpedo out of the water, and fought hard to the net, a rainbow! That explained the jump. Caught another rainbow and a brookie out of the riffle, coming on consecutive casts. We then continued downstream and I found a nice big rock in the middle of the stream with a good amount of cover for fish. The second cast to the tail of the slackwater behind the rock brought a trout to me, a brown trout this time!! This was the first time I have ever caught a brook, rainbow and brown trout in the same outing. Kind of a little slam for me haha. Anyway we had pretty good luck in this stream, but given what I have heard about the damage to the ecosystem we still need to tread lightly on this gem of a river.
A few of my buddies and I went to Pigeon river country these past few days for a backpacking/fishing trip. I didn't have high expectations for the fishing given the fish kill last year, but figured it would be relaxing and we'd get lucky to catch anything. Boy was I surprised. About 20 minutes in I drifted a small parachute next to a log and boom, nice little brookie. I thought that was it for the day but we kept moving downriver. As we reached a bend, my buddy fishing a small spinner hit one in a hole, I told him to cast again 3 feet to the right and he had another brookie. I moved downstream to a riffle behind an overhanging tree and as I was changing patterns he got another out of the tail part of the hole. My first cast to the tail of the riffle yielded a strong take, the fish took off like a torpedo out of the water, and fought hard to the net, a rainbow! That explained the jump. Caught another rainbow and a brookie out of the riffle, coming on consecutive casts. We then continued downstream and I found a nice big rock in the middle of the stream with a good amount of cover for fish. The second cast to the tail of the slackwater behind the rock brought a trout to me, a brown trout this time!! This was the first time I have ever caught a brook, rainbow and brown trout in the same outing. Kind of a little slam for me haha. Anyway we had pretty good luck in this stream, but given what I have heard about the damage to the ecosystem we still need to tread lightly on this gem of a river.