My schedule has been packed and I haven’t fished much these few weeks.  To remedy this, I invited a friend (Brian) to join me fishing Irondequoit Creek after dinner.  It’s great to have a decent trout stream within minutes of your house!  There is a solid combination of wild, holdover and stocked trout in portions of this creek.  The hatchery fish are especially susceptible to a well placed streamer.   We were on the water by 7:30 pm and worked our way upstream.  He brought his ultralight spinning rod w/ a Panther Martin Spinner, while I probed the water with a dark brown wooly bugger.  An advantage of fishing with a spin fisherman, is that he can cover more water, prospect areas, locate trout easily and readily cover the water column.  It is also easy to share water.  Most fly fisherman could learn a page or two from a quality spin fisherman.  Besides, Brian tangles with some fine trout in this stretch of the stream.  I’m glad to learn from and fish with an angler who spends substantial time on a certain stretch of water.

The hot weather, absence of rain and low water conditions reminded me more of late August than May.  I can’t recall water this low during May on Irondequoit Creek.  Nonetheless, we were able to move a number of smaller browns, several recently stocked rainbows and Brian missed one decent fish.  Logs, drop offs and deeper channels produced our fish.  I felt rusty and managed to tussle with bushes more than usual.  The highlight was the plethora of wild phlox in bloom.  Patches of phlox blanketed stretches of the creek and it was a visual treat.  The other curious angling item, was the march brown spinner fall towards dusk.  Very few fish fed on these, but it’s nice to see larger mayflies coming out of this creek.  I’m looking forward to a return trip to this home trout stream and hope that we receive rain in the forecast.