Found some nice spots right under my nose

I went out to the river tonight after my daughter went to bed. I parked down in old West Laramie by the railroad tracks and bushwhacked out to the river. Saw a few rings on the water, but I couldn't figure out what they were taking. I didn't have much time, so I threw on a small blue wing olive. I didn't get any takers on it. I also saw two beavers in two different spots that swam right through my hole. Fucking beavers. :fuckyou:

I took out my old 8ft Fenwick. There is some GOOD looking water down there, right in town. It's like a mini-Platte :D I can't believe I have lived here 10 years and never fished the river section right in town. I have always gone out of town to get on the river, thinking it would be better. We have a green belt path along the river now, so there is some easier access. I'll need to explore it more.

I snapped a goofy-assed photo of myself in the twilight. By the way, I am diggin' my new chest pack.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...g?t=1210735518

my buddy in Laramie says his friend got a 29" brown in town yesterday... Go get em...

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Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

my buddy in Laramie says his friend got a 29" brown in town yesterday... Go get em...

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NO SHIT? Can you find out where? :)

I know there are some big ones in there, just gotta find them...

throw big angry streamers and dynamite.

Night fishing.....with mouse patterns!

This water is strange. It's a bit murky and you can't see the bottom. The banks are steeper and deeper with under cuts and there is thick brush all over. It looks nothing like the spot I usually go to on the same river about 5 miles upstream. I can see how big browns could be living there. I need to completely change my approach. Next time I am taking a bigger rod and I will be using buggers and possibly Chernobyl Ants. I can't wait until grasshopper season - browns love those things. It's not super deep, but there are certainly some holes in there.

Did you guys read the recent Fly Rod & Reel article about big browns in mud holes? I am getting the impression that this is where I am going to find them.

It's also strange because the river in this area has kind of an urban/industrial feel. It goes right through the oldest part of town and there is a lumber production facility right there, as well as the railroad tracks, the interstate, etc. It's just a completely different vibe.

This is the area I was in:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...16222&t=h&z=16

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Originally Posted by schwerty

Night fishing.....with mouse patterns!

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I was just going to suggest that.

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Originally Posted by schwerty

Night fishing.....with mouse patterns!

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Actually... I was thinking about this. I have used mouse patterns for bass before. You think full/bright moon would be the time for this? I know there are mostly browns in this section, and I have heard from various people that there are some BIG ones in there.

it doesnt really matter what the moon is, they are reacting to a splash more than anything. if you can bounce a mouse off an undercut bank and make a realistic splash, you can get them going. the key is to land close to the bank so it seems like a mouse falling in the river. pause for a second and slow strip.

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Originally Posted by 72Twenty

NO SHIT? Can you find out where? :)

I know there are some big ones in there, just gotta find them...

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that he caught them in the WATER. Try fishing there.

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Originally Posted by snow_slider

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that he caught them in the WATER. Try fishing there.

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You're such a tool. :D

Fish in the water.
Never. Not. In. A. Million. Years.

as one guide friend of mine says when you false cast too much (like more than once)
"only ever seen one fish caught on a fly that wasnt in the water"

aparently one of his clients tangled a salmon fly in a weed on the bank and a fish came out of the water to hit it.

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Originally Posted by fez

as one guide friend of mine says when you false cast too much (like more than once)
"only ever seen one fish caught on a fly that wasnt in the water"

aparently one of his clients tangled a salmon fly in a weed on the bank and a fish came out of the water to hit it.

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Believe it or not, that happened to me once. I casted a grasshopper to the opposite bank about a foot too far and it got hung up on a branch. The fly was a couple inches above the water and a brown came out and got it. I had to wade over there adn untangle my line from a branch while the fish was hanging on the fly.

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as one guide friend of mine says when you false cast too much (like more than once)
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shake it twice, your just playin' with it.

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Originally Posted by 72Twenty

NO SHIT? Can you find out where? :)

I know there are some big ones in there, just gotta find them...

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Apparently someone at UW did a survey of the trout in the river in town and there were like very few fish per mile (50 maybe) but all of them were 20+

Is Larmie really that big?

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Originally Posted by schwerty

Night fishing.....with mouse patterns!

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works well in utah as well. very few fish, but the upside is you only get monsters. no bass where i fish, but your looking at some fat browns and rainbows.

Well, the river is WAAAYYYYY up right now, so it will be a little while before I start hitting it again. I'll fish the plains lakes for a few weeks.

I hear there was a play wave from a couch lodged between the banks in the little creek there (grass creek?)

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Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

I hear there was a play wave from a couch lodged between the banks in the little creek there (grass creek?)

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Seriously, where do you hear this stuff?

my buddy who goes to school at UW