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| Bryan flips to an icy pool on White Oak Run |
Brr the water was cold, 41 as Bryan and I stalked up White Oak Canyon Run, the middle tine of a trident that when joined becomes the stocked and well known Robinson River. 41 is just too cold for even cold-loving trout to be spunky and the cloudy day kept the sun from warming the surface of this deep-canyon run. White Oak Canyon is an über popular hiking trail and we walked up the well established blue blazed trail for 10 minutes before the pools drew us to the icy river. We had sporadic luck with small trout on both dries and more frequently droppers, but the water was just too cold for a consistent bite. The run was steely beautiful, Finger numbing frigid water slid through chutes and licked icy flows and dams. We enjoyed the scenery and practiced our casting for about 4 hours and decided to call it a day and revisit this special place in the spring.
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| Culvert marks the downstream extent of native trout on Cedar Run, twin-neighbor to White Oak Run |
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| A well marked, blue blazed trail traces the right/eastern side of WOR |
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| Black and White captures the steely cold of the water |
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| We caught 9 today, this one on an adams, but took few pictures as I thought, "Well, I'll wait for a bigger one." |
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| Bryan (center left) blends in w the greys, blues and browns of the canyon run |
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| WOR's gradient increases upstream |
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| A fallen tree and cold rock frame Bryan in a great pool |
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