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It's been too long since I busted out the old UL Cherrywood and hit the LoPro. I have an early day at work today and the weather is looking beautiful all week, so I stashed my gear in my car and I'll be on the river this afternoon hunting for browns, brooks, and bows.
I doubt I'll have time to cook anything today before I need to get to my next engagement, so I figure I'll be doing some C&R using all my spinners. I always crimp down the barbs on my spinners when I buy them to make C&R easier if that's what I'm doing that day. With treble hooks, I haven't noticed a huge difference in the spinner's ability to keep the fish on while I'm fighting.
Hopefully I"ll have some good pictures to post later this evening!
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Browns, rainbows, whitefish and graylings. I haven't seen anyone report a brookie in the LP for a long time.
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...and graylings.
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Really? Is this recent?
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The first fish I ever caught on the LoPro was a brookie, that was a little over a year ago.
Although I have been known to mis-identify trout before. I'll see if I can dig up a photo somewhere.
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Well I warded off the skunk. The bite was slow, but I was there for a few hours. Caught a decent sized brown during my first 20 minutes, on a rainbow trout pattern Panther Martin. Wasn't really equipped to cook anything, so he went back to swim another day.
Had another couple of bites, and one solid hookup that got away on that same spinner before it was sacrificed as a token of gratitude to mother nature.
Put on a yellow/red spots with a silver blade in the same size and got another bite or two on that, but that was about it. I also tried experimenting with some other stuff like curly tails and a wooly bugger with a full clear bubble, but didn't even get a sniff on anything that wasn't a spinner today.
I saw a whole bunch of these little garter snakes all over the place. Must just be the time of year when they come out; I've never seen them around my favorite haunts on the LoPro before.
Anyway, not a ton of catching, but some good fishing and the weather was absolutely beautiful. Can't think of a better way for me to have spent my afternoon.
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Yeah, the flow seemed pretty high. Water was pretty green, but in slower places it was fairly clear. I've seen much worse clarity there is what I'm saying, I guess.
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Good job. That first Brown was hungry for that panther. I saw one of those snakes at Willard Bay yesterday too.
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I must be wrong about the brook trout, though I've never caught any there. Just started catching on the Provo in about October and all I've ever caught on it are browns and rainbows. The statement about graylings was because of a post I saw over on UWN where I remembered a grayling in the picture but looking back I realized it was actually a whitefish caught in the section between DC and Olmstead.
Interesting thing, never really figured an answer for this one, I catch two different kinds of browns on the LoPro and they differ in taste. Your typical golden colored browns never taste good for me and I've had some where I can cook them to jerky and still have soft meat along their back. Yuck. But there''s these other ones I catch that have almost not a hint of gold or yellow and are mostly silver, they're pink and tasty. Diet or hybiridization, what do you think? Here's a picture of some, the top two are golden colored and soft fleshed, the bottom two silver and firm fleshed with good color.
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