My journey west... Arizona trout on the fly

[Johnsfolly]

4 hours ago, JestersHK said:

Thanks for the replies guys.   It really is beautiful out here. 

I headed out again this morning to some different water. After a good 400ft hike down I found some nice pools that were holding fish. I nymph fish with no indicator and could barely see the bead head, but the flash as the fish hit was awesome. I also stripped a small orange jig which they hammered.

Again not any size but they were strong little bows.

Seen a ton of elk out here too.  Was driving so kind of hard to see...

This is my last day here then tomorrow we head to Colorado!

 

 

Great job on knocking off Arizona from your state/trout goal! Great looking photos and healthy looking naturalized rainbows.

Also great way to milk the Likes buddy with the multiple posts ! Must have learned from the Master - aka BilletHead !

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Great job on knocking off Arizona from your state/trout goal! Great looking photos and healthy looking naturalized rainbows.

Also great way to milk the Likes buddy with the multiple posts ! Must have learned from the Master - aka BilletHead !

                  I learned that from you. Folly the string along story guy,

 BilletHead

[JestersHK]

Haha,  almost as bad asmy ongoing trip reports.

So my lovely wife gave me a few more hours to fish.   I went back to my original spot,  and broke out the buggy whip for some good old fashion jigging.  

Started small with an olive peach sculpin pattern, and my second fish I got smoked by my biggest rainbow here yet.   I'd seen this one motoring around yesterday and he would hang out under a big rock.   He put up a great fight all the way to the net.  He was probably 13 or 14 inches which apparently is a good size trout for these waters 

After that it was back to the little guys.  I ended up with 21 more today.  Hoping for similar results in CO.