My Best Day Ever

[Buzz]

I got a phone call on Friday from Jason Boothe, Denjac's son, and he wanted to do some trout fishing. We decided to try Capps. We met at the mill at 9:AM and MAN was it windy. It was blowing so hard upstream that it was making whitecaps and nearly impossible to get a good drift. Jason really wanted to fish the mill dam, so we geared up and headed for the water. I was first to strike gold, when on the second cast I hooked into and landed this nice Brown. I guess it to be about 17 or 18 in. Jason missed a couple of strikes, but didn't get hooked up.

After a while we went downstream a ways. Soon we found a good spot with quite a few decent rainbows. We were both catching several average sized rainbows. I made a long cast upstream, using the wind of course, just above the deep pool. My strike indicator went down just like every other time, but when I set the hook I knew it was a better fish I just didn't know how much better it was. She took all of my line that I had laying at my feet and started peeling of more. This fish would not come up. She made several good runs before I got her close enough to see just how big she was. Jason saw how big she was and put his fly rod down and grabbed his net. On the second attempt he got her into the net. Man was I excited. Jason took a couple of pictures for me and we let her go back to her deep hole. After she was released Jason saw several eggs that she left behind in the net, she was full.

A little later Jason caught a nice Brown he said was about 17". Unfortunately, the fish got out of his hands before I could get over to him to take the picture. We continued fishing for another hour or two catching a few more rainbows.

Neither of us was done fishing so we took off and headed for Hickory where we finished the day off catching several more nice sized fish before calling it a day at about 4:PM.

My thanks go out to Jason for both netting and photographing my biggest Brown Trout ever,and on little old Capps Creek for that matter.

[jjtroutbum]

Great report Buzz. Thanks

[ness]

Wow -- great trip! Thanks for sharing.

PS: I think I know that spot

[Buzz]

Wow -- great trip! Thanks for sharing.

PS: I think I know that spot

Yeah, well I was so excited I didn't even think about what was in the background. Usually nobody is around when I catch a good fish and I have to take the picture of the fish on the ground, which I really don't like to do.

[ness]

Yeah, well I was so excited I didn't even think about what was in the background. Usually nobody is around when I catch a good fish and I have to take the picture of the fish on the ground, which I really don't like to do.

Ditto. But, a great fish and that's all that matters.

[fishinwrench]

I think I know that spot

Is that your beer can ?

Nice Brown, Buzz ! What was dangling under the bobber ?

[Guest]

NICE brown!

[laker67]

Way to go Buzz. You guys certainly had a great day. Thanks for the report and the pics.

[Buzz]

Is that your beer can ?

Nice Brown, Buzz ! What was dangling under the bobber ?

The beer can may have been Ness's because it wasn't mine.

I was fishing with a little bug I came up with. I haven't figured out a name for it. I guess it would be most similar to a burlap, without the burlap, in olive. I've found it to work great on small streams and wild trout love them.

BTW Wrench, I just watched your YOUTUBE video on tying Mohair leeches. Very good.

[fishinSWMO]

Thats an awsome fish, great picture.