Wild Rainbows

by JJ Mathes
(Georgia)

I had passed over this section of creek in North GA a week earlier, it’s tight, overgrown and barely 5-feet wide. On this day I returned with a 4-foot Nissin Sasuke and caught seven wild rainbows 5"-7".

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.