03-21-2012, 06:06 AM
I seem to have an obsession with streamers this year and have been fishing them A LOT more lately. Even been getting into tying some big ones and it sure paid off today! Haven't had much luck on the Logan since I moved up here but I headed out today to a spot I've been wanting to check out for some time now. It was some fishy lookin water and I was determined to catch some fish on my home-tied streamers. I started out with a sculpin pattern and landed one on that, just a little guy.
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Moved around the corner to a really nice hole where I lost a few and decided to tie on a bigger articulated pattern I had recently tied. Few casts later landed this nice 16 in cutthroat.
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Landing this fish had already made my day but it only got better from there. I was able to move a ton of fish for the next couple hours, calling them up from depths and watching them chase down and inhale my fly. Missed a lot of takes but still landed about 20 including my biggest fish yet on a fly rod, this 20.5 in brown!
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It sure is a great feeling to have a hard time netting a fish because its almost as long as the net itself! As i moved further upstream the fishing continued to be productive, as the population of browns declined the cutties increased and they were just as willing to attack my beefy fly.
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As the sun disappeared behind the mountain the fishing slowed so I started the long walk back. Stumbled across a devoured moose carcass the coyotes had been picking at, their tracks were everywhere.
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This will definitely be one of my most memorable fishing trips and I have found a spot I will continue to visit in search of more big fish. And I am now officially addicted to streamer fishing to say the least. The takes are exciting to watch and feel, the flies are fun to tie, and the increase in size of the average fish doesn't hurt one bit! [
] Definitely ready to make a trip to some big fish waters this summer in search of a trophy!
Here's a couple of streamers Ive tied recently, the third one with the woolhead did the damage today.
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Moved around the corner to a really nice hole where I lost a few and decided to tie on a bigger articulated pattern I had recently tied. Few casts later landed this nice 16 in cutthroat.
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Landing this fish had already made my day but it only got better from there. I was able to move a ton of fish for the next couple hours, calling them up from depths and watching them chase down and inhale my fly. Missed a lot of takes but still landed about 20 including my biggest fish yet on a fly rod, this 20.5 in brown!
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It sure is a great feeling to have a hard time netting a fish because its almost as long as the net itself! As i moved further upstream the fishing continued to be productive, as the population of browns declined the cutties increased and they were just as willing to attack my beefy fly.
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As the sun disappeared behind the mountain the fishing slowed so I started the long walk back. Stumbled across a devoured moose carcass the coyotes had been picking at, their tracks were everywhere.
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This will definitely be one of my most memorable fishing trips and I have found a spot I will continue to visit in search of more big fish. And I am now officially addicted to streamer fishing to say the least. The takes are exciting to watch and feel, the flies are fun to tie, and the increase in size of the average fish doesn't hurt one bit! [
] Definitely ready to make a trip to some big fish waters this summer in search of a trophy!Here's a couple of streamers Ive tied recently, the third one with the woolhead did the damage today.
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