Finally! I scored an illusive Trout using my trusty fly rod and on a fly that I had tied!

I traveled to NE Iowa again(check out my earlier posts from March)with Mel Anderson and Tom Tidemann. We stayed at Tom and Vickie's "cabin" which is near Spring Grove, in SE Minnesota. There are wonderful trout streams in NE Iowa which is only a short drive from their place. We fished Waterloo Creek, and Big Bear Creek where both Mel and I caught our first trout on our fly rods. (On our March encounter we had some swipes but no landings.) So this being our second attempt we were eager to score! We fished until 9:30 PM Thursday evening, Tom caught and released three, Mel and I were successful in catching thistle plants and dill weed plants some of which were in back of us and some were in front of us. Thursday evening Mel found out what happens when you forge a stream that is about 24 inches deep but you are wearing only 20 inch high boot waders. He said that his feet were cool the whole evening.

Friday morning was a different story. We both "broke Through" and landed Rainbows - not huge ones but they were certainly frisky. Don't laugh till you have tried this type of fishing. I had a couple of others "on" but they got away.