06-29-2014, 10:28 PM
To start off - to sum up the whole trip in one word, rain. Really that was good because as the clouds socked in and low there was no wind. Wet and rain is way better than clear and a wind that you cannot fight. I am putting some photos that sums up the Wednesday noon to 10:30 Saturday morning trip for the four of us. This was my third year in a row going at the end of June. You know I always considered myself a "C" Magnet and I was brought down to earth when I caught my first fish. I found out that the C did not stand for CHICK, but it stands for CHUB and in my case my first fish was an 8 inch chub. I know that that is getting up to be a trophy chub, but my grandma taught me to hate chubs 50 years ago. Who can go against their grandma? It just got better from there on. I had bouts of brilliance out on the lake and that is when I was wishing someone was by me to see how great of a fly fisherman I can be. At those times I think Curt Gowdy would have been jealous. I had more hook-ups than my fishing buddies. I used Number 3 sinking lines and the most productive flies in order were: Green seal bugger#8 ( I am putting a photo of it. They were hammering it even when it was falling apart. Now I have a new fly to tie), Black Simi-seal #8, Mity Mouse with a brown tail #10, and then a spattering of many others. Most the fish were hybrids, then cutts and out of all our fish 3 brookies. I ended up landing 70 fish and I know that isn't stellar, but the next best in the group landed 27. Then to top it off I made a Paella to die for, for all of us. Too bad there were too many tight lipped tooners or we would have shared because we had plenty. I have soooo much fun catching fish, I want those around me to get into the action as well. I hand out the information freely on what we are catching them on. Too bad there are those that keep that information to themselves even when we are not keeping any fish. To sum it up - We had a great time and have it on the calendar already for next June. Question - What is the longest you have fought a trout and how big was it?
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