January Bear Creek

What a great couple of hours! I love Bear Creek. Quiet and still - snow everywhere and just a few tracks of small animals. The creek was mostly iced up - but a line of open water can be found here and there.
My first catch was a nice brown caught on a green flash pheasant tail #18
Then, in a larger deeper pool I got a large wonderfully colored rainbow trout with bright red cheeks.
This fish was big! I had real problems getting him in over the ice shelf. A beautiful heavy fish at around 14 -15 inches. Thrown back of course!