From the Archives: A Well Used Brown
Kel took this shot of a brown that I caught a few years ago on DePuy’s Spring Creek. It’s one of those photos that seems to continue to live on, despite its somewhat ordinary nature. Actually, this particular brown has shown up in a several different catalogs, ads, slideshows, and so forth over the last couple of years. From a design perspective, I guess it just seems to fit a wide variety of needs. But I think that there may be more to it than that.
I think that many of us have some “well-used” fish swimming through our angling minds. It just seems that there comes a moment when certain aspects of our fly-fishing lives come together to produce a memory that lingers. It’s almost as if the fish that define those moments are way-points on our angling journeys, and serve as a means for us to recollect other experiences that we may have forgotten. I suspect that this well-used brown is, for me, one of those way-points.
Looks a bit like a Lake Botsford fish to me.
It does have that look about it, you’re right. Miss those days in Tassie….