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| James taking a break descending Dark Hollow Falls on Hog Camp Branch |
The main flow of Rose River comes from Hog Camp Branch and the hike down below Dark Hollow Falls Trail is one you don't take lightly. I told James it wasn't far from Skyline Drive horizontally but it is vertically.
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| Keeping low to hide his approach James stalks a mountain pool |
We parked and geared up at 28 degrees 3500' feet on skyline Drive and carefully made our way down the steep trail with our gear packed in Mountain rucks. It was an easy hike down and about 200m in we began to see brook trout inexplicably high up in the plunge pools. At the bottom of dark Hollow Falls we geared up and stashed our packs under a log and headed another 15 minutes down Hog Camp Branch Trail to a lovely little bridge just above where the namesake Rose rivulet joins HogCamp to form Rose River.
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| The Mr. Rapidan parachute is a hard fly to beat |
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| A perfect brookie pool on the Upper Rose |
Unlike last Friday there were no bugs in the air and the fishing was corresponding slow as the trout kept low in the water with their eyes down and ahead instead of up looking for a hatch.
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| Believe it or not there are 19 brook trout in each of these two pictures...see if you can find some |
We had a great time and each caught our share of trout but it wasn't a gang buster day. My best catch came in the last pool and bathtub sized plunge pool at the base of Dark Hollow Falls where I caught the very same trout I caught there last year.
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Mature brookie from bathtub hole April 2018
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| Same brookie April 2017....amazing colors |
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