 Wild Rainbow Trout: They Haunt Me
Posted by fisherboy (2897 reads)
Wild Rainbow Trout have haunted me all summer and still do. The honey holes that Jeremy and I fly fished last year are producing nothing except for the occasional tiny fish. Everytime we went fly fishing for the wild Rainbows, we would expect the fish to be in the deep, slow holes but we were always dissapointed and phrases such as "worst year ever" have even been said. Today, after recieving some local knowledge and doing some exploring, we finally found the huge, beautiful, hard fighting wild Rainbow Trout that we had been looking for.
Jeremy decided that the only other place the fish would be were the riffles, and not the deep riffles either. Infact, if you were standing in knee deep water you were standing in the fish. So, I tied on a huge Bugmeister fly pattern that I had tied the night before. I used straight 3x tippet and hauled it out far into the riffle. I watched my fly float down in the riffle waves and thought to myself, "wow, this thing has its own zip code!" Just as the fly was finishing its dragfree drift, a decent sized Rainbow Trout attacked the fly with aggresion and jumped clear out of the water after the hookset. Just as he hit the water, the fish ripped the slack line out of my hand and tore line off the reel like nobody's business. I don't think any stocked Rainbow Trout could fight as hard as this one did. The fish was
not huge for this section of river sbut now we know where they are hiding. Stay tuned for more wild wild Rainbow action.
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Re: Wild Rainbow Trout: They Haunt Me
by patm http://www.yankeeford.com | nice to see a post from you austin. I have not fished since the 2nd week of July. Damn work....
Anyway glad you found some rainbows. hope your summer is going well. look forward to some early fall striper fishing with you and Jer on my boat |
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Re: Wild Rainbow Trout: They Haunt Me
by waterwhippa | | Way to go Austin. I knew you guys would sniff them out. Excellent! |
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Re: Wild Rainbow Trout: They Haunt Me
by MarshallD http://www.flyanglersguide.com | It's surprising how a 14-inch Bingham Rainbow can sing your reel! I see you guys have been taking the advice of local legend, Jim Messer. Good going.
marshalld |
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Re: Wild Rainbow Trout: They Haunt Me
by greg http://www.fliesandfins.com | | congratulations, the best I could do last night was a chub. Iam sure that fish cost you some running around and many casts.Great fish! |
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