WELL AFTER WORK I SKIPPED DOWN TO A POND FOR SOME CASTING...SAW A FEW FISH RISING....IT WAS BRIGHT AND SUNNY OUT AND I HAD NO EXPECTATIONS OF A LOT OF HOOKUPS...I TRIED A DRY ROYAL COACHMAN....NO ACTION...THEN I PUT ON A RED SAN JUAN WORM....NO CATCHES BUT I DID SEE A SIZEABLE FISH FOLLOW IT IN....SO THEN I SLAPPED ON A PERENNIAL FAVORITE FLY..A GOLD RIBBED HARES EAR....I CAST OUT...LET SINK A BIT....STRIPPED IT IN SPORADICALLY AND BANG...TROUT ON..AFTER THAT I SETTLED IN TO CASTING OUT...STRIPPING IT IN QUICKLY...THEN STOPPING THE FLY COMPLETELY...THE FISH WERE HITTING IT RIGHT AT THE PAUSE...I CAUGHT 6 BROOK TROUT....1 BROWN TROUT...A PERCH AND A BLUEGILL....ALL FISH WERE RELEASED....TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT EVENING AFTER ALL...ONE BROOKIE WAS A BRUISER...AND HERES SOME PIX:
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I thought the next to last pic was pretty groovy with the fishes tail whipping up the wall of water.
I'm hearing ya. Heck of a nice camera to slam all that action to a crystal clear stand still like that.
NOT TO MENTION REFLEXES LIKE A STRIKING KING COBRA...... :biggrin:.... :innocentwhistle:
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HAHA.....Im headin out early tomorrow ...going to a place where I have caught some behemoth brookies before....where I caught the football trout I posted on here somewheres...nothing like stripping that line in and then feeling dead weight....setting the hook and the big ones go deep and rip out the line whoo-hoooo.... :yoyo:
Did they get to go back with the salad? :innocentwhistle:
"STRIPPING IT IN QUICKLY...THEN STOPPING THE FLY COMPLETELY...THE FISH WERE HITTING IT RIGHT AT THE PAUSE...I CAUGHT 6 BROOK TROUT....1 BROWN TROUT...A PERCH AND A BLUEGILL....ALL FISH WERE RELEASED....TURNED OUT TO BE A GREAT EVENING AFTER ALL...ONE BROOKIE WAS A BRUISER...AND HERES SOME PIX"
Well I pounded the water for 2 hours...got 3 light hits and got shut out........thats fishin. :madd: :doh2:
i went fishing in the mnts for 4 days day one 21 trout all was released day 2 25 trout and all was released day 3 n 4caught bout 15 each day n all was released day 5 i headed for home n fished my way out n caught 6 n went home. wish i had my camera for the fishing contest that would be a goood start
i ment 5 days sorry