Well guys, today I finally got out to go trout fishing this year. Started out this morning at one of my more productive streams, and after awhile I had only saw a single fish. I decided to hit up my favorite hole and yet again, nothing. I was just about to pack it in when I noticed a palamino swimming up above the hole in a very slow running section of the creek. I spent the better part of an hour working on that fish. I worked lure after lure past him and got several chases but he wouldn't commit to biting (I will be after him tomorrow afternoon).
This afternoon I went to a different stream, it is a very small creek that usually doesn't get many fish and the trout that they put in are usually the small brooks. Well, after fishing a good part of the stream and only having one follow I walked back to where we parked and decided to hop in the stream to get the mud off my boots. I looked upstream and saw a fish about 10 feet from me. I brought a Yo-Zuri Pins Minnow and a Rapala past him and he didn't even look. I decided to try a black Roostertail and then call it quits. I cast out and brought it down past the brookie and he gave chase but didn't bite. Cast out again and got the same results. Finally I cast out and decided to just VERY slowly drag the roostertail on the bottom and I saw him slowly swim towards the lure and pick it up in his mouth, and here are the pics and specs...
Right at 18", and weighed in at 2.5lbs. Perfect condition, and is now at the taxidermists!
My first day trout fishing this year... PICS
