Nortrad

Yeah, I have seen it too many times, and found too many worm containers and power bait jars down there. Hopefully people will respect the reg's more. We've all gone round and round about that issue. We should all call the incidents in.

They have told me that, and the Brown Derby on National near my place said the same thing. I'll have to pester them...

I would agree Justin, rainbows are rambunctious, and they seem much bigger because of their fighting tendencies. I have had brown jump once or twice, then drop and hold. Any word on the population sample from yesterday?

That's true too. I've read both sides about their spirit when you hook them. They are beautiful to behold. I miss the days back on the rez when I landed big mountain brookies. They are fun to hook and fight. They slam the fly in my experience. IMO, browns and rainbows fight differently. I've had my butt handed to me by consecutive big rainbows in upper Tan Vat on one day where I learned that my fish fighting skills had to improve. And I have also landed much bigger browns that kind of 'gave up' after a short fight. Every fish is different I guess.

Thanks for the info guys. I caught a couple small ones out west last year, and, I have heard they don't fight as well. Can't take credit for the pic, that's from Mike Doughty, the blogger who runs 'Dances With Trout' blog, trout tripper. He's formerly of WA like me and has an excellent eye with his camera. Great blog. http://trouttripper.blogspot.com/

I will, we're going to take some sort of canned brews next weekend. I admit it, I'm a beer snob, only the quality stuff, that's on sale of course. Had some Leinie's last summer, they were OK. I like the Tallgrass products. I heard in trout nirvana, MT, that Big Sky comes in cans. That would nice, Trout Slayer, Pronghorn, Mt. Goat, Moose Drool, mmmm...

I'll chime in, and this may have been answered sometime on a post somewhere. What's the reasoning behind not stocking cutthroats in more streams? Are MO streams not suited? Will the cutties clean up on juvenile rainbows? Not familiar enough with this, any input?

Thanks man, they are coloring up. Fished a stretch down from Baptist that I had neglected for awhile, looks very promising. The browns were landed on a fave stretch of mine.

Uh oh, the pressure's on, must hook some fish...

Good job man. Hopefully our group will get into some fish next week.

So the humungous stripers will not be affected?

Will the current stun the stripers, and, will they be released back?

Yeow! Awesome job guys! Fish to always remember.

It's cool to run into another person from the forum. It was beautiful day. That's a good story, wish I would catch one with a fly I lost when my knot gave out. That was quite a while ago and hopefully the fly dropped out. Here's one, last May downstream f. Tan Vat, Jedi and I are fishing 'The Wall' as we call it. I hook and land a nice big brown with a rubber leg stone. 15 minutes later, Jedi hooks the same fish. We matched it to the pic I took. The fish went back to his lie and kept feeding. It was crazy fishing that run with off-color water.

Got to a certain part of the river downstream and walked down to a nice riffle/hole where I have had success in the past. Started off well with two stockers, 'bow and brown. Then the nice 'bow in the pic hit my new attractor nymph. It's a variation of a czech nymph and has worked every time since I've been tying it. I wanted to go small most of the time today, midges and small attractor nymphs. Interesting, or maybe not, but the next two big browns came from the same place as the 'bow, in the slack water on the edge of the main riffle. Guess they were taking it easy, not working too hard. Both browns ran short upstream then down. Got the first on a regular #18 zebra midge and the second on a variation of a Rojo midge, #20. Great morning with three beauties and a few stockers. If I got skunked the rest of the day that was OK. Moved up to Baptist at lunch and headed down. No real luck in the nice deep run above the turn. Got the fightin' little bow on a Jumbo John variation w. pink bead. Walked down below the turn and caught two more smallish 'bows. Saw two nice browns but could not entice them. Made my way back, tired, happy and thirsty (see pic.) On a negative note, when I got back to Baptist to head home a guy and his wife were heading to their pickup with a stringer of 10-12 browns and 'bows, looked like mostly stockers. I forgot my phone, but called it in a few minutes ago. Don't know what will come of it, but I'm tired of people harvesting below reg. size trout in the Blue Ribbon stretch. Thanks to all who post and give advice. On to the NFOW in less than two weeks.

I'm so old that my 26 yr. old had to tell me two definitions of 'chubby.' And we used to say, "You can have her chubby cousin.." This is the chubby we should recognize. Course, there were probably some 'chubby chasers' throughout the river this summer...just sayin'...

I second that about Rep. Emerson.

I can relate, spent a lot of time learning to catch fish this way, a lot of time skunked. Make sure you are mending the line, throw a mend immediately after your cast sets down, then, depending on current and drift, you mend again, and possibly repeat, pulling in your slack throughout the drift. I found it helped a lot to watch another person fishing/mending etc. Like Mr. Poppin sez, concentrate on the indicator, watch thru the water where you think your rig is drifting. Don't forget to adjust your bobber to find the right depth.

Thanks Gavin, and kudos for your efforts to save the streams here.

It would be worth it to take along a few hoppers, chernobyls, and chubbies, the flies, not what everyone's thinking...

LOL! No, it's an interesting tale with a certain staggering in the river, falling under water, getting back out female, and the things she said, and her boyfriend encountering her in front of us, and...I'll save the rest for when we get there...

My 2 cents: Al, perception is key; Gavin, yes we should not pick on Justin; Justin, you are correct, living on the river gives you a different perception; Hooters is good, as are bikinis, and, I have never heard the term 'lefty.' NFOW is beautiful, and summer is crazy down there. Justin, Jedi and I will tell you a story of a certain drunk female down there in July 2007, my first time to the NFOW. Be prepared...

Nice, never thought I'd see this on the NFOW. Probably too late by the time we get down there in less than two weeks, not that I'm counting or anything...

I hear you, used to knock down some ducks back in WA, quite a while ago.

Nice report Chance. Looks/sounds like an awesome time. The Circus Peanut, yeah...