04-03-2004, 08:13 AM
got to the berry at around 6:30. we fished the open water over by the ladders. i used red sided shiners and did not catch a thing so i put on a rainbow color 5 inch tube and made a few casts. on the second cast bam i had a hit. jigged it once and then bam again it was on. she immediately started rolling and it was difficult to move her. at first i thought it was stuck in some sage brush. i only had six pound test on so it was a real fight. i finally got it moving and about 5 to 10 minutes later i had my finger hooked through her gill plate. it was a 24 inch massive rainbow trout. it weighed at least 6 pounds. she had the entire jig swallowed. fishing slowed at the stairs and i only caught one more after that big one. we decided to go fish the weber below rockport. my dad also caught a total of two at the stairs.
so we get to the weber and they arent letting very much water out at all. so the usual holes we fish are just a little trickle. i have a few bites and my dad catches a couple 16 inch browns. the day progresses and my dad hooks up with a huge fish. it is rolling and taking line and doing every thing. the net is on my side of the river and at that exact moment i have my waders off so i have to trek it across the river to land the fish for my dad in bare feet. i get over there and he is shouting that iit is ten pounds. any way i get there and sure enough from the deep comes a huge brown trout. i get the sucker landed. took him back over across the river and weighed him up and measure the hawg. the thing measured almost 27 inches (26 and 1/2 inches) and weighed near 8 pounds. considering that i am leaving for two years and wont get much chance to eat fish we decide to keep the 2 big ones and 3 little ones. what a way to go out catching two huge fish. a 24 inch bow that weighed 6 pounds and a 27inch brown that weighed 8. that is the biggest fish i have ever heard of being caught on the weber. that rainbow that the berry was in a class of its own too. i am getting pictures developed in one hour photo tomorrow so you can see the two hawgs for your self. the rainbow i caught was chuck full of 1 to 2 inch crawfish. like 5 to 10 of the little suckers. no joke!!!! one of the sixteen inch browns had a 4 inch chub digesting in its belly when we opened him up.
jr8fish
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so we get to the weber and they arent letting very much water out at all. so the usual holes we fish are just a little trickle. i have a few bites and my dad catches a couple 16 inch browns. the day progresses and my dad hooks up with a huge fish. it is rolling and taking line and doing every thing. the net is on my side of the river and at that exact moment i have my waders off so i have to trek it across the river to land the fish for my dad in bare feet. i get over there and he is shouting that iit is ten pounds. any way i get there and sure enough from the deep comes a huge brown trout. i get the sucker landed. took him back over across the river and weighed him up and measure the hawg. the thing measured almost 27 inches (26 and 1/2 inches) and weighed near 8 pounds. considering that i am leaving for two years and wont get much chance to eat fish we decide to keep the 2 big ones and 3 little ones. what a way to go out catching two huge fish. a 24 inch bow that weighed 6 pounds and a 27inch brown that weighed 8. that is the biggest fish i have ever heard of being caught on the weber. that rainbow that the berry was in a class of its own too. i am getting pictures developed in one hour photo tomorrow so you can see the two hawgs for your self. the rainbow i caught was chuck full of 1 to 2 inch crawfish. like 5 to 10 of the little suckers. no joke!!!! one of the sixteen inch browns had a 4 inch chub digesting in its belly when we opened him up.
jr8fish
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] Congrats on such a successfull trip! Can't wait to see the pics. What did you guys catch the browns on the weber with?
] Bring on those pics.