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Little Prickly Pear Creek
Wolf Creek, MT
Saturday, June 5, 1993
Fished this creek a few miles south of Wolf
Creek along the Recreation Road. Lots of holes and riffle
areas. Water is usually about knee-deep, lots of slippery
rocks, and mixed pebbles and sand. Weather was warm and
sunny and saw some mayflies and caddis flies, although trout
weren't surfacing. Did catch a small brown trout on a tiny
brownish nymph. There are several beaver dams along here
which look especially good for dry flies. Overall, a fun
creek to fish and wade.
Thursday, June 10, 1993
Took Jeanelle on her first fly-fishing
experience near the picnic area/train trestle. After taking
two steps into the water, I fell in and was soaked up to my
shoulders. I was terribly embarrassed, but kept on fishing.
She easily caught on to casting, and I caught a few
fingerlings. Didn't fish long because of the damp
clothes.
Saturday, June 12, 1993
A cold, windy afternoon. Went back to the
trestle/picnic area and fished downstream to the next
trestle. Below the first set of rapids, caught a 13-inch
brown trout that fought for a few minutes and another small
trout. Water was still a few inches high, but it was clear.
Some areas are tough to wade because the current is strong
and the rocks are especially slippery. Used a bead-head
hare's ear nymph. No flies in the air.
Saturday, June 19, 1993
A hot, sunny afternoon. Fished the same stretch
as last time, but went a few bends further down. No luck
today, and too much sun for my fair skin. I got a bad
sunburn. Water was more murky than before and still a little
high. Saw some caddis flies, but not many.
Saturday, June 26, 1993
Fished the area near the lowest beaver dam on
this nice partly sunny day. Used bead head hare's ear nearly
the whole afternoon. Also used a mayfly emerger because I
saw a few large blue mayflies come out of the water and fly
straight up. Caught a large rainbow, but could not land it,
by drifting the nymph slowly behind the large dam. It seems
that the fish just wait in this deep water for food to come
down the pipeline. A little further downstream, there is a
nice stretch of riffles and some undercut banks. Caught 10
inch rainbow here, and spooked a much, much larger trout out
from under an undercut bank.
Saturday, August 21, 1993
Tried the lower beaver dam area again. Hooked
about 4 good trout on a Royal Wulff, but all got off the
hook after a brief struggle. Switched to a bead head nymph
and landed about 4 smaller browns. Day started cloudy, but
ended up in showers. Found that most of the trout were
hanging out behind large submerged rocks or near the
undercut banks.
Saturday, September 11, 1993
A windy and warm day - probably one of the last
of the year. Tried the upper beaver dam and caught one and
then tried a new area. This was just outside of Wolf Creek
and is probably the real "lower beaver dam." There are
several good holes containing trout here, but they were
terribly fussy and wouldn't take a grasshoppers, Royal
Wulff, or brown or black hares ear nymphs. It looks like
I'll have to wait until next year though - unknown to me but
known to locals, the river closed on Labor Day!
Sunday, June 12, 1994
Joe and I headed out on this warm, mostly cloudy
afternoon. We fished a few of the holes I had been to last
year, but we didn't have much luck. Joe caught his first
trout on a fly rod - it fit in the palm of his hand. I got
lots of strikes, but they were all from trout too small to
swallow my caddis fly. Was surprised we didn't have better
luck as the water seemed just right.
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