Chistopher Creek & Horton Creek with Brennan

I was unable to go fishing last week so by the end of this week I was itching to hit the river. The plan was to head up Friday afternoon to meet Brennan (check his blog out at fourcornerflyfishing.blogspot.com) to fish Christopher Creek on Friday and Horton Creek on Saturday. Brennan grew up in the Payson area and I was excited to learn from his experience about fishing the area.

Friday after noon Brennan, my dog Sage and I rigged up and started working our way up Christopher Creek it was'nt more than a couple pools until we started landing fish. The creek was running high but was still relatively clear and the stream bread browns and Rainbows could not resist hitting Brennan's go to fly the San Juan Worm. Turned out to be a great day with each of catching several fish while hiking along a wonderful creek. We fished until we could no longer see our indicators before calling it a night.

That night we drove over to Horton to set up camp so we could hit the river first thing at sun up. We called it a night pretty early but not prior to Brennan learning a good lesson about needing to puncture a hole in his can of chili prior to warming it on the fire. After a small explosion Brennan no longer had a dinner and his can was 50 feet from the fire with a spray of chili leading the way. Luckily I had extra food...

The next morning we started our way up Horton Creek from the confluence of Tonto and Horton. After a mile or so of hiking we started fishing our way up the Creek. The river was fishing much like Christopher with fishing small pools and around large rocks, and again no matter how hard I tried to get another fly to produce they were mostly hitting those same San Juan's. Other than one other fisherman who we only saw once and several hikers we had the river to ourselves.

It ended up being a great two days of fishing and between us we probably landed over 30 fish. It's always good to have another bud who can appreciate fly fishing. I forgot my camera the first day and didn't take many pictures the second but thanks to Brennan to some good shots.