09-06-2025, 01:15 PM
We were getting in a rut fishing Willard, so this week, we combined some scouting with some fishing. Our deer hunting area burnt last year, so we did not hunt, we were hoping things would be better up there this year, so we headed up there and as soon as we got off the main road, we started seeing deer, even a few bucks. We drove around for a few hours looking for deer and grouse and then headed down the mountain a little, to a place we had not fished in several years, Mill Hollow. We tried just about every lure we had brought, they were being very picky, but we finally found a couple that produced 7 or 8 bows and one tiger trout, noting big but it was nice to get up in the mountains, with some cooler temps. My first Bow up there was a little out of the normal, wish I had taken a pic of it but I was concerned about getting it back in the water and I did not have a net but in addition to the normal rainbow colorings that all bows have this one had nickel sized round spots, on the lower sides. Has anyone ever seen this pattern before? I have seen it before many years ago when I was growing up in Colo, we called them spotted trout but I don't remember ever seeing them since.
