Long Pine

I was first introduced to Long Pine Creek on the way to a kayaking trip with Mike & Linda Cox years ago, before I actually took up fly-fishing, but I've been wanting to fish it ever since.

Well, now I have.

Like my beloved Verdigre Creek, the Long Pine is spring-fed, arising from the Ogallala Aquifer and running north to the Niobrara River. And like Verdigre, it holds wild brown trout as well as both stocked and wild rainbows.

The creek and its banks are also home to various dragonflies, butterflies, and birds—including spotted sandpipers, who were people- and camera-shy but left their tracks for Jessa to photograph.

The eponymous town of Long Pine bills itself as "the beauty spot of Nebraska". I might quibble with the definite article, but with a resource like this, they certainly have a claim on a beauty spot.