Members jrbhc8 Posted December 18, 2006 Members Posted December 18, 2006 Went fishing down at the springs on Friday and Sunday. Friday, I did decent catching a few rainbows, and managing to hook a few lunkers. Although it was one of those days where I just could not hook a fish, which was dissapointing. I did manage to land about a 4-5lb rainbow.(see pic) Sunday, CenterPunch and I went down to do some damage. Before the bell rang, CenterPunch spotted me a fish and let me go after it. Fifteen minutes later, and a little chasing up stream I had it hooked and was fighting. CenterPunch quit fishing to help me get the rainbow in. I fought it for another ten minutes as we tried to land it again and again. Then the fish took a big run, and gave a few good shakes and I felt as he got off the line. Luckily for me CenterPunch was right there when the fish got off, and saved the day with one of the best net jobs that I have ever seen. I'm not sure that anyone else could have pulled that off. It ended up measuring 24 inches, with a 16 inch girth. We guess it to be close to 8lbs, my bigggest fish ever on a fly rod. (See pics of football shaped fish below) The rest of the day we scouted and stalked all the fish in the park with some sucess. I hooked some more good fish, but they hung me up. CenterPunch hooked some monsters, but I'll let him post to tell you about them. All in all a good day, my 21st birthday was on the 16th, and I could of not asked for a better present. jrbhc8 www.troutchapters.com jrbhc8 ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ | <°)))>< | <°)))>< | | ¿ >°)))><
Center Punch Posted December 19, 2006 Posted December 19, 2006 john, again thats one hell of a fish. oh yeah and as far as the net job goes, i do what i can. although i didnt land one this big today, i did land my fair share of nice ones. put 3 in the net that were all between 5 and 6 lbs and a couple others in the 3-4 lb range. caught alot of fish and missed alot more. broke off on app 7 lb rainbow that took me for a ride. it took me straight across the river and almost went coasting up on the opposite bank. then it screamed upstream wrapping my flyline around a rock. it jumped way out of the air 2 times and then snapped me. that fish definitely owned any chance i had of even putting a net near that fish. i will post pics of some that i caught tomorrow or next day. too tired tonight. www.troutchapters.com >>>---------->(x) Jared
Members sasquatchmike Posted December 19, 2006 Members Posted December 19, 2006 What were you catching those nice fish on?
Center Punch Posted December 20, 2006 Posted December 20, 2006 sasquatch mike you have a pm www.troutchapters.com >>>---------->(x) Jared
Members sasquatchmike Posted December 21, 2006 Members Posted December 21, 2006 Yes, but I am an AM person. What are you using to catch all those nice trout?
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