My first day trout fishing this year... PICS
04-14-2008, 07:28 PM
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My first day trout fishing this year... PICS
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!
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!
04-14-2008, 07:47 PM
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RE: My first day trout fishing this year... PICS
thats a great brookie BM!!!!
i thought of you today as i added more trout to the list for the pins minnow!!! actually bought the 2.5 inch one this year incase i spot some bigger fish...though it looks alot bigger than the typical 2" model i fish....havent tried it yet....but its in the box incase i need it! lol
i have a rough time finding anything over 14"...to me a 14" would be a biggun...we just dont get them except an occassional breeder here and there...and an occassional golden...
only caught 3 myself this year and logged....probably 10hrs...took a buddy to a lake on the opener..he doesnt know much about fishin so i figured i could teach him more at a lake than i could at an over packed stream...today i went to a creek that was just stocked this morning....creek was bare of fish except at the bridge...where it looked like opening day...fished 1/4 up stream..nothing. 1/4 down and picked up a bow and a brown...other than that i didnt get a hit or chase...ive found that if i dont get a hit or chase with the pins, i can say about 75% sure there aint a fish within a couple feet of where i passed it...even when water is low slow and clear and the fish can see you, they STILL chase and follow it...
sick of the nonsense already...crowds...fish stacked where the crowds are.....soooo tomarrow im going to head up to a fly fishing only section...i will be surprised if i see another angler...and if i do, i can always head to a native brookie stream not too far away where i will fall over if i see someone else fishing!
i thought of you today as i added more trout to the list for the pins minnow!!! actually bought the 2.5 inch one this year incase i spot some bigger fish...though it looks alot bigger than the typical 2" model i fish....havent tried it yet....but its in the box incase i need it! lol
i have a rough time finding anything over 14"...to me a 14" would be a biggun...we just dont get them except an occassional breeder here and there...and an occassional golden...
only caught 3 myself this year and logged....probably 10hrs...took a buddy to a lake on the opener..he doesnt know much about fishin so i figured i could teach him more at a lake than i could at an over packed stream...today i went to a creek that was just stocked this morning....creek was bare of fish except at the bridge...where it looked like opening day...fished 1/4 up stream..nothing. 1/4 down and picked up a bow and a brown...other than that i didnt get a hit or chase...ive found that if i dont get a hit or chase with the pins, i can say about 75% sure there aint a fish within a couple feet of where i passed it...even when water is low slow and clear and the fish can see you, they STILL chase and follow it...
sick of the nonsense already...crowds...fish stacked where the crowds are.....soooo tomarrow im going to head up to a fly fishing only section...i will be surprised if i see another angler...and if i do, i can always head to a native brookie stream not too far away where i will fall over if i see someone else fishing!
