Fly-Fishing: Goldilocks Creek, Wyo

This trip was a week early; the express train of water needed to drop yet lower to give the fish a few pools to hold in. At the same time, I was a week too late for finding the majority of migrating Cutts this high up in the headwaters. Both too soon and too late.

[@55steelhead]

You can tell an older guy did this by scenery shots, the food cooking , the old SA reel and foot shots. The camera sounding like a Scud missile incoming and the old classic putting his beer in a glass. Pitching a tent when he’s in a camper and have assemblance to the outdoor life. I loved every second of this vid. Good job !!

[@nicholskk]

The white beard didn't already give it away. i was young just last week.

[@stevemd8947]

Tha ks for another great video. Beautiful fish and scenery.

[@nicholskk]

thanks Steve, glad you liked it

[@popouimette8136]

Thank You, Sir I really needed That this morning. My truck camper nearly has it's new radiator installed.

[@gregvetter5070]

Looks like a hell of a good time brother. Nice video, thanks for sharing.

[@nicholskk]

Thanks for watching

[@SanJuanMountainBob]

That was real ‘purdy’. Regardless of high water or not, you’re one of those guys that will always catch fish. Me…not so much. Haha. Thanks for sharin.

[@nicholskk]

I ate humble pie for three days to find those beautiful, few fish.

[@jimreed8852]

I know you go to a lot of trouble to set up those great camera shots. And I love the lack of constant nonsense chatter most all FF videos contain. Thank you, Nicholas Kirk.

[@nicholskk]

i find on those, that you can turn off the sound and run the tap in the sink, you get a better video. (I don't really waste the water, but I do turn down the volume - to each their own.)

[@rccola362]

Is Goldilocks creek the real name? Beautiful scenery

[@nicholskk]

i just did a web search for you and did not find one.

[@rccola362]

lol

[@backpackerone]

Would you object to sharing what flies you used?

[@nicholskk]

I had the most attention on a streamer that I named a Crystal Rainbow (white crystal chinle trailing a rainbow tinsel and dark olive maraboo tail), then a scud I named Rootbeer-leFemme (pink wrap with rootbeer or gold tinsel wrap at the waist), an attactor nymph I call the Christmas Caddis (green with red highlight at the tail), and the not original tie, the pink squirmy worm. All are heavily weighted with a large beadhead and the shank wrapped 6-7x in .025 leadless wire. Never saw a fish rise and only a very few mayflies in the air. The fish were deep under the banks along the edges of the raging current. Finding those few slower edges was more important than the flies (though the heavy weight was critical to get down deep quickly with very short calm-ish eddies)