Did you see that?

Fishing John's Creek has been more experimental than anything else. I have only seen a few trout this season, and only caught a couple. The practice in tight quarters, and stealth approach has been invaluable though. If they've stocked anything in John's Creek this year, it has been caught or washed out by the heavy rains this spring. I've seen as many bear tracks up there as I have trout in that stream. The first week that I went, I got a few bites, but that's about it. Probably because my bait didn't taste like fish food. These are stockers, mind you. They've eaten pellets their entire life up until the last week when they were dumped in the stream to be caught and eaten by hungry fisherman. That's the just of it though, for in a week, we will enter a land where throut eat insects, and that's all. Never has a pellet of fish food entered the digestive track of one of these elusive creatures.

Conasauga River. Nestled alongside the Jack's River in the Cohutta Wilderness Area. This area has not been stocked with trout in many, many years, so these fish know what's going on. I have never fished the river, or the Jack's for that matter, so it will be a challenge for sure. I'm sure it will be a learning experience rather than a dumbfounding one though.

You have surely noticed that this is this is the same weekend as Easter Sunday. Needless to say I'm going anyway. I've already asked for the weekend off form the liquor store, so I may as well make the best of it. I've never been that interested in Easter anyway, so I guess I'll grab my camera and my flyrod and head for the "Connie." Most people won't be able to get away this weekend, so some decisions will have to be made and priorities set. Mine is at the stream bank currently. Being in nature is what makes me happy and I don't even have to be drunk.