The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.
JAD on Dec 17, 2007December 17th, 2007, 5:41 am EST
Sorry you know I had to do it. ( a tributary of the River Itchen.
Sounds like they were Itchen to get away. :)
One time when Young Womens Creek was drying (up in the 80ies).I was walking out from fishing and in the middle of the woods their were Brook Trout swimming in a underground spring.They were at least a hundred yards from the water edge. Thats when I figured out how those fish survived when the water dried up. Fish can do some strange things to survive.
JaD
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,