Something old, something new.

[Islander]

I’ve been catching the stocker carry overs (Yellowstone cutthroat) pretty consistently on a Canadian Brown color simi-seal leech out of the P&T lake. So I wanted to see if that color would be productive on bigger fish in the C&R lake. Tied a couple up on larger hooks and headed to the water around noon. The color was very productive on the “smaller” rainbows but after an hour I still hadn’t hooked into my usual quarry. I switched back to the old faithful pumpkin head and within a few minutes was into more quality fish. Had four nice ones, bigger were a 20” tiger and an 18” spawner. After a couple hours headed home.

The little guys.

The better ones!

 

[Tim L]

I’ve been catching the stocker carry overs (Yellowstone cutthroat) pretty consistently on a Canadian Brown color simi-seal leech out of the P&T lake. So I wanted to see if that color would be productive on bigger fish in the C&R lake. Tied a couple up on larger hooks and headed to the water around noon. The color was very productive on the “smaller” rainbows but after an hour I still hadn’t hooked into my usual quarry. I switched back to the old faithful pumpkin head and within a few minutes was into more quality fish. Had four nice ones, bigger were a 20” tiger and an 18” spawner. After a couple hours headed home.
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The little guys.
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The better ones!

Seen a lot of fish porn from you lately...do I need to call you The Heff?

 

[Islander]

Seen a lot of fish porn from you lately...do I need to call you The Heff?

Making up for lost time. We had a long cold winter this season.

 

[Wade Rivers]

My brother in law lives in Clark and took me to those lakes some years back. Great local resource for you. Over here in Oregon, I too love the punkin' head in olive/orange. Do you do well on the brown?

 

[Islander]

I’ve done well on the Canadian Brown and the Crawdad colors, but my “go to” is usually the pumpkin head, especially in the Spring.

 

[troutpocket]

Great report! I like putting a hot orange head on a Canadian brown simiseal leech.

 

[Islander]

Great report! I like putting a hot orange head on a Canadian brown simiseal leech. View attachment 63243

Nice looking bugs, I’ll have to try that.

 

[dep]

thanks for the visuals