Arriving at my usual spot, I realized that I forgot my tenkara rod 😭
Although I really wanted to do tenkara, my feeling quickly recovered because I got a backup fly rod and reel in my car 😊 I also rediscovered the quality of this rod 😉 I don’t get to use this setup that much unless I forget or break my main rod for the day 🤔
I'm headed to Indiana. If the weather cooperates, I will have a nice fishing week. Will hit Turkey Run Park outside of Louisville either tomorrow evening or Sunday morning. On Monday, I hope to go to Turkey Run State Park in western Indiana. Yes they have the same name; it's a coincidence. I'll work in Indiana all week where I will have access to the White River. I don't yet have a plan for the following weekend. I'm taking a tent, so Daniel Boone National Forest will be on the table. If I am impressed by Turkey Run State Park, I may go back there. If you've got some opinions about theae areas and fishing, I would love to hear them.
I did not see anybody on trails, but I saw some people fishing this creek during rain yesterday. I guess it was recently stocked with trout 🤔 Fishing was not my primary focus - I came here for walking in the woods although I had a fly rod with me 😉
Arriving at a local creek this evening, I discovered that I forgot fishing lines and also premade fishing rigs 😭 So, I just decided to take a walk in the woods 😊 I didn’t forget fishing waders, so, I had no problem walking such trails 😉 BTW, this is a designated trail, which I usually avoid because it very muddy and wet 😊
Driving 50 minutes (one way) to Downingtown/Thorndale area for my son’s soccer training session today. But as long as I get to see such a nice creek nearby, I am completely OK with that 😉
I spent about an hour checking this creek, now I kind of know what to do with this creek 😊
Drove about two hours for my son’s away soccer game and found a nice looking river in back of the soccer field. I should buy NJ fishing license as he got more games in NJ🤔
Spending the morning checking around creeks in the Downingtown area while my son is in a soccer training session. Too muddy after rain, I didn’t fish 🙁
It looks like a good creek, there are nice walking trails along the creek 😊 There are some good looking spots. I might come back for fly fishing 🤔
My father did not really teach me how to fish as far as I remember. But he always took me fishing (bait fishing). He always caught fish, while I struggled. One day, I suggested that we use artificial flies. He told me, you wouldn’t catch much, so not fun. Maybe this is why I fly fish. If I use baits, I would never beat him. But at the end of the day, fishing is not about the methods, it is about how to identify where the fish are and understanding the nature 😊
When I start using a regular fly rod, it it hard to switch back to a tenkara rod. But when I switch back to tenkara, it is also hard to go back to a regular fly rod - I love both 😊
But this tenkara rod, only 10 inches when collapsed (12 feet when extended), can be carried in my small fishing sling bag as I often hike and walk a lot more than actually fishing. I think I will be using this for a while 🤔
Before heading home after fly fishing, I stopped by this little creek. Although many anglers would say fishing is great even without catching any fish, which is true, I am pretty sure catching a fish makes the day even greater 😉
To cheer up my sad feeling, I checked another creek. I didn’t fish here, but this is a beautiful creek 😊
I had a few hours to spend in this put-and-take fishery 😊
At this point, it is pretty hard to find even a single trout 🤔
But I accomplished one of my today’s goals - catch one trout to feed myself who is a pescatarian - while enjoying walking and fishing (tenkara) in the rain 😉
This is a good American IPA. Nothing special, but it is solid IPA and well balanced 😊
On a separate note, it takes me at least 40 minutes to get to this creek. As it is not stocked with trout anymore, it is open to fishing all year round, but its water quality seems to be declining 😞
But my son caught many Rock bass with a fly rod on a summer day 😉
Passing by a small tributary while tenkara fishing. I never fished this tributary🤔
Lots of gravels and rocks without much water. But I know there are some pools upstream that have small fish 😉
I also realized that I never checked the temperature of this tributary during summer. Considering that this confluence is a good fishing spot, the water may be colder than the main stream 🤔
Taking a short walk during the drizzling rain while waiting for my son’s game to start 😊
There was a nice trail along this stream in the West Chester University property. Sipuwa means streams, and Sipuwas is wild plum in Lenape Language 😉