fished at bennett

[albright3]

a buddy and i went down for some c&r fishing at bennett. We arrived about 8:30 and started by the bridge(not the whistle bridge). I stood on the ledge that the water falls over for about an hour and hooked up to 3 12-13 inch rainbows. I then moved towards the bridge and was drifting under it, I picked up about 10-12 more small ones and then fished where that little hatchery shoot comes out and caught about 20 dinks. I caught all of these on glow balls and a scud. My friend and I decided it was time to catch some bigger fish so we left the little ones alone and headed down a little into zone 2. We quickly got into them and I had landed a 15 incher right off the bat. After a couple more landed, my buddy spotted a real decent rainbow cruising around. I threw at it a couple of times and he wasnt interested but I didnt give up. Since I was seemingly scaring him when my fly hit the water, I threw way upstream of him so he wouldnt get spooked. After my indicator passed over him I was just waiting for that twitch. He hammered the scud and the fight was on. It wasnt the biggest trout I ever caught but was the biggest I had caught from Bennett (21 inches app. 5-5 1/2 lbs.) Plus I was using only a 3 wt. It was a bittersweet moment because somehow my fly rod broke when I was landing it in the net. After saying a few select words my buddy and I decided we would grab a bit to eat. We got back on the river again at about 2:30. We went to zone 2(where the split river joins into one river) We saw that the fish were stacked in the shoot so we decided to fish it until the whistle. Since my fly rod was broke, my buddy graciously shared with me his flyrod and we took turns catching fish. We probably each caught about 30 fish and they never slowed down hitting. We just had to stop because of the whistle. We didnt pick up any more big ones though. All and all it was a decent trip. I was kind of dissapointed in the size of the fish other than a couple I caught. Numbers were high though. I think I probably caught about 75 rainbows and not a single brown(buddy caught one). Now I am out of comission until I get my rod repaired/replaced