I've caught bulls in that same spot.
Trout and their lairs
- Thread starter Richard Olmstead
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From a favorite spot during an early fall freshet about 10 years ago. Narrow lie between split current plumes. High stick to keep the line out of the main plume and let the fly dead drift. Most grabs come just before or next to the rock on the lower part of the slot...
... and the "trout"
... and the "trout"
Look like Blackmouth.From a favorite spot during an early fall freshet about 10 years ago. Narrow lie between split current plumes. High stick to keep the line out of the main plume and let the fly dead drift. Most grabs come just before or next to the rock on the lower part of the slot...
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... and the "trout"
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Good eye. Fall chinook, so technically you are correct.
I would like to extend a "Like" to all that posted pics in this thread. Those pictures brought back a lot of memories to an old man that caught his first trout on a fly on July 28, 1951. It was in a stream that resembled many of those pictured and the first of many fished over the past 71 years. Now living in the land of lakes for over 20 years I don't get to fish streams without a significant drive but there are a couple near by and one is a dandy. Freestone and I will celebrate our birthdays on these streams in late July and it will be one of the year's highlights.
Thanks for the memories, Ive
Thanks for the memories, Ive
bearclaw_guajolote
Steelhead
Different day, but same spot. So many places they'll hold in this section. And not too many people target cutties in that neck of the woods.
Richard Olmstead
Steelhead
Here's a little bit different spot, somewhere in the mid-Atlantic states. The bottom-release dam maintains a cooler temperature than the stream would otherwise have throughout the year, permitting naturally reproducing populations of rainbows and browns in a part of the country where most trout fisheries are put and take. The river is managed as C&R for 7 miles below the dam, where the river flows through a relatively narrow gorge. The plunge pool below the dam harbors the biggest fish, which sometimes drop down into the riffles below to feed and spawn. This fish took a #18 bead head pheasant tail in the narrow channel closest to the right bank looking upstream.
Somewhere in SW Montana last August
Outside of this bend, against the bank, between the 2 boulders
Same stream a couple hours later
Water flowing left to right, best fish of the day was under the hanging log on the right side. I threw a pink hopper tight to the log jam as far under the log as I could get it. Water exploded as soon as it touched down.
Outside of this bend, against the bank, between the 2 bouldersSame stream a couple hours later
Water flowing left to right, best fish of the day was under the hanging log on the right side. I threw a pink hopper tight to the log jam as far under the log as I could get it. Water exploded as soon as it touched down.
Just got back from the Green in Utah and it was fantastic. Incredible water and stunning scenery. Like @Brute mentioned in his report, plenty of 17-19 inch brown trout to go around.
My old man robbed the bank for this nice brown. Flying ant hatch.
We doubled up on some risers in this flat water section
My old man robbed the bank for this nice brown. Flying ant hatch.
We doubled up on some risers in this flat water section
Oliver1329
Life of the Party
With high water you have to find the right pockets!
EvenTallerDude
Smolt
This thread has me thinking. I think I am pretty good at picking spots for trout to be found. The exception I have had is up on the Elk River in BC. The fish are in the normal spots I am used to, but, I discovered by accident that they are often in places where you'd think they shouldn't be, like in the middle of the river in very high flows. I've only really found that on that river and always found it odd.
Anybody else experience something like this?
Anybody else experience something like this?
I seem to only have the inverse experience - can’t find trout in the places they should be.
The lie (from two angles), and the denizen.
This fish reacted but did not take the first two patterns I showed it. It liked the third pattern, a two-colored-abdomen parachute, but I mistimed the hookset on the first take and pulled it out of the fish’s mouth. Luckily the fish liked it enough that it ate it again!
This fish reacted but did not take the first two patterns I showed it. It liked the third pattern, a two-colored-abdomen parachute, but I mistimed the hookset on the first take and pulled it out of the fish’s mouth. Luckily the fish liked it enough that it ate it again!
A very small stream in dense forest I fished for the first time yesterday.
A lot of shallow ankle deep sections with an occasional drop into a small shin deep "pool".
A lot of shallow ankle deep sections with an occasional drop into a small shin deep "pool".
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