Browns really are predators.....

[netboy]

This was a first for me.

 

I waded an area near the Cotter bridge Sunday morning where I have been seeing a big brown trout the last couple of trips. The water was down and very clear. Sure enough he was there but once again wouldn't look at anything I threw. I tried an egg pattern, sculpin imitation, big streamer, marabou jig, midge and then a woolly bugger. He followed the sculpin once and then lost interest. I finally gave up on him and went back to an egg/midge combo and started to catch a few rainbows.

 

I hooked a 12" rainbow on the midge and then a couple smaller rainbows started following the one I had hooked apparently interested in the egg. Then I see the brown swoop up and grab one of the rainbows (probably around 10") and had him sideways in his mouth. I watched him settle back to the bottom and he held that rainbow sideways for about 5 minutes then turned it around and swallowed it. He stayed in the same spot all that time.

 

Guess I need to find a rainbow trout colored jerkbait.

[MoCarp]

use a testers model paint pin for a few dots, replace the hooks with wide gap KVD red hooks, and slather it with the slime from some keeper bows,  get more slime keeping them in a bucket with some saltwater makes them slime up more, just saying (don't release them after... they will die after you collect the body slime)

[Quillback]

That would be a neat thing to see.  Maybe one of those big soft plastic rainbow imitating swimbaits would work?  They make some really realistic imitations, pricey however.

[netboy]

Thanks for suggestions guys. Next time I'll try this streamer my friend Mark Crawford gave me a couple years ago. He said it imitates a small rainbow really well. 

It was interesting that it all happened within 10-15 feet of me and in thigh deep water.

 

 

[JestersHK]

Man, Would of been great to catch on a GoPro underwater!  

[netboy]

Yeah, I tried to get some pictures with my cellphone, but too much reflection.

[BilletHead]

           Netboy,

  A gallop T&A streamer rainbow pattern. Avtually pretty easy to tie up. I did this one a few years back. The pink marabou along the side has faded some. Articulated and has great action,

  Use a full sinking or sink tip line.

   BilletHead

[netboy]

Thanks BH, I found this link on details for tying the T&A. I'll give it a try.

http://www.flysandguides.com/how-to-tie-kelly-galloups-ta-rainbow 

[Flysmallie]

The T&A is a great fly. The rainbows will eat it up too. 

I know what's happening at the vice tonight. 

[joeD]

If you can see big browns, they can see you. Difficult catching them on low generation. Regardless of what you throw.

Wait for generation, get a boat, and throw jerkbaits. 

But, what do I know?  Fishing is fun, especially on the White.