Beaver Creek - Fish Are Hitting Streamers

Type: Nontidal
Region: Northern
Location: Beaver Creek

I just got back from fishing Beaver Creek and with the higher water some of the trout are hitting streamers. The higher water may give the average fisherman a chance to hook these fish that normally have a bad case of lockjaw. I hooked a nice 12-13" Rainbow in the morning which wrapped my line around a log. I thought I was going to lose the fish but somehow it got free and I landed it. It was caught on a Black Nose Dace streamer. I continued to fish some holes upstream by the houses in the upper portion of the catch and release section and had two more strikes from fish that appeared to be about the same size as the Rainbow that I caught but I could not hook them. I caught one more tiny Brown Trout. After that the Trout reverted back to their fussy ways and I caught nothing more even though trying a fish egg pattern, a San Juan worm and a Scud Bug.

In the afternoon I decided to fish a trib stream near Big Hunting Creek for wild Brook Trout. These fish were extremely wary making it almost impossible to approach a pool. I finally had some luck in the evening close to dark when a pretty fish of around 7" hit a Wooly Bugger in one of the deeper pools. These fish never get very big but they have beautiful color. I have yet to get a 10" Trout from this stream. I wonder if in the past Maryland Trout streams had bigger Brook Trout. Is 10" is as large as they get under wild conditions? Tight lines all. Some snaps.