Coolest Trout Stream You've Ever Fished

[redbud]

I wouldnt call it a stream,The Colorado River down in the Grand Canyon.If you have never been there you need to go.It was a life changing experience for me.Rafted and camped in the canyon for 8 days.caught enough fish to make a nice shore lunch for our entire party.The Grand Canyon will make you realize how insignificant you are compared to the big picture.

thought I had pics of the fish,Here is one of the river.

[Smalliebigs]

Actually this one is in the state of Missouri. I will not name it as it is has a very small population of forgotten self sustaining trout. It is well off of the beaten path and far from any other trout waters. There is really nothing special about the place or the trout but it is the feeling you get while fishing it.

After parking on a secluded dirt road, I begin my hike, albeit somewhat short, of about a 1/4 mile down a dry creek bed. Slowly and steadily though, more and more water comes almost without notice out of the gravel. Before you fully realize it, there is a good steady flow. Every increasingly, you suddenly find yourself in some of the most beautiful water like an oasis in the middle of the desert. A spring that boils out water at about the same rate as Roaring River is at this point.

I have never fished this spot on a sunny day. Not that it was planned that way, it has just always been a cloudy, overcast day that when coupled with the deep winter, looks as if you are on some great water deep in the Black Forest of Germany. One person that has fished it with me says it has the feel of a Blair Witch Project to it. And I agree. It has a very eerie, mystical, medieval aura about it. Visions of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's fantasy sequences in the film The Song Remains the Same vividly come to mind.

Sweet a Zeppelin stream now that's killer....I want to go there.

Unfortunately the stream that runs thru our land use to sound like your stream Chief but, goofy crap upstream has destoyed some of it's alure.Some years when the Meramec floods the right way the stream gets replenished with thousands of fish from the river, including a heap of smallies looking for cover I could only assume.They hold in the creek until a gully washer sends them back to the river.Until that happens the lower end of Brazil creek will provide some of the best smallie stream fishing you wil find anywhere. Ah, but the right set of circumstances have to occur for this to happen so don't all you guys jump in your trucks and head to my back yard but when it does, Brazil creek becomes something that your dreams can only think of.

[Chief Grey Bear]

We might just have to do that some winter day.

[Greasy B]

Boy this is tough, hell I get all worked up when I see water running down the curb in front of my house. I like any water that moves. There’s no way I could pick out a single coolest, but one the streams at the top of the list is Coyote Creek in the Valle Vidal area of northern New Mexico. The creek is about a foot and a half wide and all but hidden in tall meadow grass until you walk right up on it. The Native Rio Grande Cutthroats are beautiful beyond description and the western landscape is breathtaking. When I fished it several years ago non native rainbows were busy hybridizing the Native trout out of existence just downstream in the Rio Costilla, It would be heart breaking if these wonderful fish were to vanish.

[dennis boatman]

Spearfish creek SD, Upper Owens River Bishop, CA,