Trip of a Lifetime?

[ollie]

Ok, lets get something straight right now. I have fished this creek for at least 10 years in a row and have never seen any big fish except about 5 years ago. Never will forget that one either. Big brown surfaced about 10 feet from me twice and then disappeared. The biggest I ever caught there was 16", but many people have told me of bigger fish they had seen or seen caught. I am still in denial of what happened today. Never will I say anything about Capps again regarding size EVER!

The day started out pretty cool. Cloudy and overcast all day with little wind to none. Cold front coming in tonight I think with a chance of rain. Perfect conditions to fish I thought. Man I am still STOKED! Walked quite a ways down stream until I found lots of stocked fish and went on to catch several with the biggest being 14". I counted at least a dozen in about 2 hours that I C&R. BTW, all fish where C&R today. I walked a long ways to get to what I wanted also. After catching the stockers and seeing lots and lots of ducks I walked back up to the truck. It was about 1:30 now so I decided to fish upstream and if you want specifics you will have to pm me. Ginger is the color I have been into big time this year. Last year I wouldn't go to it and this year it's all I start out with.

Let's see, I watched two hawks hunting today when no one was around. I got "spooked" by an Armidillo. (I wish they would go back to Texas) And I caught two LARGE trout. Oh yeah, i did catch two nice fish within 30 minutes of each other. Ok, I have caught some nice fish at RR and caught 4 twenty inch plus fish in one outing, but nothing could compare to what happened today. When you catch two fish over 20" in a little creek like this it makes you wonder if there can be any better. Two fish within 30 minutes of each other I might add. Two fish over 20", did I say that already? I am still in awe as I write this. First big fish was a brown that measured out at 21". After reviving this fish for around 15 min. I let it go without any problems. I went on over in the same hole and then caught a 20" rainbow. I don't know if I will ever catch any fish like this again down there, but it is truly a trip worth a lifetime for me or anyone else. Why is it you never have a camera when that happens, but you have one when nothing happens?

[duckydoty]

Sounds like and awesome trip! Congrats on the hogs.

duckydoty

[Ham]

Good Golly Ollie. You need a fishing partner just to take pictures of your fish.

Great trip. I wish I could have been there.

[drew03cmc]

Awesome fish Ollie! I would be happy with the two dozen under 14", but that just makes it all the much better! Great trip

[hawgslayer]

at last someone to back me up when i say that there are huge trout in capps. i wish i could of been down there fishing to. and i thought that that ice storm might of killed off all the armidillos