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[Bluegillman]

When u catch trout with the flyrods do those fish jump out of the water when hooked? I remember trolling for rainbows they do jump up around four foot and I had to lower the rod to keep them from throwing the lure.
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[flygoddess]

Same thing. You kinda follow the fish, keeping line tight but not too tight cause the tippet is a lot smaller. Try pulling them to the side also. You get more pound pressure pulling to the side that straight up.
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[TubeDude]

[#0000ff]Some trout jump a lot. Others do not jump at all. They are more fun when they do.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The rainbows seem to be more likely to jump. Browns sometimes jump, but often don't. In some waters almost all the browns jump, and in others none of them do. Neither brook trout nor cutthroats seem to be jumpers, although I have had both species execute low jumps. Probably a mistake.[/#0000ff]
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[zonker]

Ya gotta wonder what a hooked fish is thinking when he jumps. Is he thinking, "I'll shake this thing loose," or is he thinking, "I'll jump out of the water and suffocate this foreign thing in my mouth." Is he coming up for a look at what kind of jerk is on the other end of the line? Probably not thinking at all. Just reacting in sheer panic.

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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Ain't it funny how we fisherfolk tend to give fish credit for being able to think about things? [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My guess is that their leaping when hooked is pure instinct...a throwback to the basic escape reactions they used when smaller, to escape predators.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Since I have never had the pleasure of conducting an interview with a fish, I guess I am just guessing.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

I did have big ol' cutt, hybrids go airborne on me at "H". what a rush, didn't loose a one. The brown on the Provo go airborne too, but as you say alot of places they don't.
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posted this picture on another site, the white spot in the trees on the left is a trout taken to the air and cught on a digital camera, how is that for timing. Try clicking on piture to enlarge.
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[zonker]

That's a flyin' fish! Great picture.

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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]That's a good pic. I have admired it on the other site. As a photographer, I know how hard it is to get the timing right. I used to shoot a lot of lightning shots down in Arizona. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I made the statements about Browns sometimes jumping, it was the Provo River browns I had in mind. Never seen them so active in any other waters. However, two browns I got in Jordanelle last November both went airborne. A 22 incher jumped very high several times.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Cuttbows are probably more likely to jump than pure strain cutts. I cannot remember most cutts doing much more than rolling a lot. That includes about 4 strains of cutthroat.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

true storie. I'd like to see the lightening shots. I've tried, but yet to catch one.
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[Bluegillman]

The lighting shots, me too![]
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Here's a small file version of one of my favorite slides. It is a lightning bolt coming down through a double rainbow. Pure luck. I was shooting the rainbows and the timing was simply fortunate.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of my best stuff, with multiple shafts of lightning, was "cheating". I set my camera up with a tripod and put the shutter on "B" mode, with a remote trigger. I would point the camera toward where most of the lightning strikes were happening (at night) and let the open lens take in several strikes before I shut it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Unfortunately (for this post), I have not scanned some of my old slides so I do not have digital copies. Trust me (mistake), they are awesome.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I lived in Tucson, I spent many hours chasing the frequent summer monsoon storms. They always produced some scary lightning and made for some jaw-dropping sunsets. I have reels of slides of nothing but lightning, rainbows and sunsets.[/#0000ff]
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[zonker]

Beautiful!

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[flygoddess]

That's what I'm talkin' about! SWEET!
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]I'll dig out some of my lightning slides and scan them someday. In the meantime, here are some other Arizona pics from my collection.[/#0000ff]
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Sunrise over Saguaro Lake

Moonglow

Desert Coral Bean Flower

Hedgehog Cactus

Arizona Worm
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[zonker]

I was doin' OK with those pictures until I got to the worm one on the bottom. Yikes!

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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Kind of an Arizona insider joke. There is a story about a guy from New York spending time on an Arizona dude ranch. One morning he came in shaking a set of rattles. When asked by one of the other New Yorkers where he had got them he answered "Off a woim (worm)".[/#0000ff]
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[Bluegillman]

[size 1]Hybrids and pure breeds, I wonder if you notice the flesh of them both? (Do u eat fish too?) One time on a lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area we caught rainbows and they all were 12 inches. Some would jump and some don't but fought harder than others. For breakfast on the rainbows, my wife asks why is yours red and her's almost white? We all start to look at them all that we caught and found half were red and the rest were white. The lodge owner came in to join us for breakfast and we asked why that's like that, he says hybrids were whites and pure breeds were pinks. (that was along ago and I forgot the whole story) Hybrids fought harder than pure. Tasted was hardly to tell the difference. This was only on the rainbows but I wonder if it was the same with the other trouts?[/size]
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[flygoddess]

I do eat a little fish. My husband won't let me cook it indoors[unsure] so I put a strip of bacon in the belly, spices and a little lemon juice, wrap it in foil and throw it in the fire. Nothing better up camping.
I don't think I can tell the difference in cutt, Hybrid, brown or rainbow (albino or reg) but, brook, bass, bluegill, & croppie - perch have a great taste also.
You are right with the 12" to eat. The bigger they get the less tastie they are. I also soak them at home in milk over night to get rid of that gamie smell and taste.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]I doubt that the white fleshed rainbows were "hybrids". I suspect that they were either recent "planters" or that they had a different diet. The fish with the red flesh have been in the lake long enough to develop a "natural" diet...rich in insects and other invertebrates. Most insects and freshwater shrimp (and crawdads) are rich in vitamin A. That is what produces the pink flesh. Fish fresh from the hatchery are usually very pale.[/#0000ff]
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