Air Temperature: 34 degrees (f), warming to 45 degrees in the afternoon, overcast, chilly
Wind: ~5 mph from the North
Water Temperature: 48.1 degrees
Insect activity: Sporadic midge hatches, no caddis pupae active
Catch: 7 Rainbows, 15 Browns
Comments: The cold front that had gone through had slowed the insect activity. The fish were hanging deep in their holes, very few would reveal their position. No real big fish on this trip.

Hot Creek shares many characteristics with the Verdigre, not the least of which is that the two are spring creeks. Hot Creek, like its sister, the upper Owens rises from springs in the high desert between the Sierras and the Glass mountains. In the short course from its source, hot springs feed into Hot Creek, hence its name. Below the springs the water remains too warm for trout. Above the springs, though, Hot Creek is a very healthy stream supporting about 12,000 fish per mile. All wild trout....

The ‘Hooch begins just a few hundred yards from the Appalachian Trail in Union County, Georgia. Ultimately, it joins the Flint River at Lake Seminole on the boarder between Georgia and Florida. From there, the Chattahoochee becomes the Apalachicola River. Eventually, it flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola Bay. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin drains approximately 19,800 sq miles in the Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Provinces.

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Rather than continuing up US 275 and turning north on 519th Avenue, I turned north on NE 14 and followed it to US 20. I turned north on the county road one mile east of the rearing station. Breaking habits has its consequences. I had triggered an inverse reality. On the creek, I was catching browns where I normally found rainbows. I was catching rainbows where I normally found browns.

My inattention to "the way that things have always been done" may have been a cause....

Just dreaming of Alaska.....







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