Well, yesterday I went up Rock Creek, further than I have before, and fished for hours without a bite, fishing in what looked like great water in different parts of the river. Finally, as the day was mostly gone, I cast into the mix of a small tributary and the river, and an aggressive little Brown (though it's my biggest one ever) saved me from going without a fish. Here's a shitty picture (it was actually the better of the two, the other one completely left out the fish):
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Since I have been spending to much on gas this week, I took a short drive to the Rattlesnake Creek trailhead, then rode my bike around 6.5 miles to where I could fish, enjoying the scenery as I put on my waders:
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There was much more water than last time:
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I hooked a fish on my first cast, then lost him as I fumbled with my net. He'd taken the blue wing olive I was trailing behind an October caddis, which is what I had been using yesterday. I kept throwing the same thing for quite a while without another bite. I switched out eventually but had no luck with anything else. The fish weren't biting though there were plenty of October caddises flying around, as well as blue wing olives. So shortly before it was time to leave, I put the BWO back on, and said to myself as I chucked it into the water, "Well I'm not going to catch anything here..." on cue, a healthy cutty took it hard and gave a good fight. He was much bigger than anything I caught last time, pretty good fish from the little creek.
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The Green and Boblandia delivered as always. Got the oldest son a fly flinging starter kit for Christmas, couldn’t wait and gave it to him this weekend. He’s a Huge Fly Fisherman now, going to have to order him a sticker…
He floated in one of our kayaks and started getting the hang of seated flinging.
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We stuck a few, nothing of note but enough to keep us amused.
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Dogs had fun as always.
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We always eat good while camping…
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Stopped by this morning and brought Merlene some bananas and our leftover eggs from the weekend. She’s a historical icon and shows up in the Brown’s Park book I’d recently read.
Got ahold of the woman that wrote the book my buddy Ross left me, ordered her two other books about Brown’s Park, every time I go out there I become more fascinated with the history of the area.
Hell yeah Bob!!
Let's keep the green stoke going! Got out and did a B and a C with Dibs and my partner (her first time on a raft), taught her how to fish and row, had a great fucking time. Perfect, splitter weather
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a couple shitty pictures from last weekend.
was my first time in a drift boat. prepped with a huge video lesson. I’ve rowed a lot of other watercraft, but came in with low expectations of how I’d do. feel like I held my own rowing but it was also a super slow river
beautiful day, caught some decent fish, got too close to some wildlife, fishing out of a drift boat is pretty damn civilized
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Floating that section in the fall is 95% stealth and positioning, 5% rowing.Quote:
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Sierras goldens at 12,000
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That's a damn nice Goldie.
I have been looking into an October fishing trip to the Boulder Mountain (UT) lakes. Brookies are starting to spawn and are getting aggressive. Would anyone be interested in this? A bit cold, camping, but potentially a bunch of 17-20" brooks and tiger trout.
I would be interested Schindler but probably won't be able to make it. Get some for me!
Beautiful golden trout!
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Decent midging today.
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20”
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8?”
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More midge eaters.
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Best one, 21”
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What they eat:
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Holy crap, strong work Plug! :yourock:
I just got back from a trip to Oregon to fish with my 86 year old dad, who has been fly fishing for 70 years. He doesn't get around quite as well as he did 6 years ago when we last fished. I was gratified to see him light up like a kid as he pulled out rods and reels, and went through his whole tackle box one night, telling fishy stories about each of the lures. The last night I was there, he had disassembled and reassembled two spin casting reels which had been sitting for decades.
We went to fish the Oak Grove Fork of the Clackamas, the stream I first recall catching fish on dry flies forty years ago or so. The stream was up, and raging, and we had difficulty finding good water to fish, that didn't have over hanging trees, and so we stopped at many places, looking for somewhere we could cast without tangling. It was as magically gorgeous as I remembered.
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I caught three small cutthroats, and dad struck out, but he seemed really pleased with the exploration of the various turnouts we tried out.
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The next day, he thought of a closer place to try, a small creek that drains East from the coastal range. There wasn't a lot of water in the creek, but it was fun fishing with Dad. This time he was really limited in where he could go, because he didn't have hip waders, and there was a dense tangle along much of the shore line, but nonetheless, we both got plenty of bites from tiny trout, and each caught six inch cutties.
The tiny became my focus, as they were very hard to hook, though they would bite repeatedly., however, eventually I set a new personal best for small trout catching, under three inches on a size 16 BWO.
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As we walked up the trail, after I helped Dad up a steep embankment, it was entirely consistent with the way it felt as a kid, out fishing with Dad in the Oregon woods.
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A couple shots from this weekend. New river for us. Central WY sure has some gems.
Had some hacking issues, not related to tgr, so shortened up my user name.
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Nice shots — that’s a pretty place. I bet your Dad really dug that outing with you!Quote:
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There are def holding pools in that creek that will yield a 12-14er — often takes some effort to get off the road view holes — and they do shift over the years
Yeah, Dad is in great shape for 86, but really working that river is a hard thrash through all manner of brush, climbing over logjams, very steep embankments, etc., and more than he can do anymore, so we kept close to the road. There is a big horse shoe bend in that river, which goes away from the road, that I'd like to explore someday.Quote:
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Dad was just really engaged with the beauty of the place, and got out the camera before getting a line in the water, but my camera was quicker.
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I think I sold Dad on the idea of coming out to Missoula, and hiring a guide to float a big river for lunkers. Next year, if he's up to it.
After a couple hours of fruitless fishing, with no bites, and too many lost flies, I hooked a big one, and lost it at my feet (the ensuing melt-down was not pretty). However, seeing fish continuing to rise encouraged me to keep at it, which eventually yielded success:
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This is exciting, because it was the first cutty I caught in my new favorite pool, where the creek's channel meets a rock wall.
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If you get a sticker order fromQuote:
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You’re welcome.
My local shop. Great guys
Rasputin I love your stoke, keep it up.
Went to my usual for my last evening as a free man and managed to snag this nice brown
Nothing impressive but I was stoked nonetheless, especially since it'll be a few weeks until I am able to fish again.
A great way to end my first season fly fishing. Special thanks to SFB for being so patient in teaching me how to fish, and other mags like BobMC toohttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...339d67e59c.jpg
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I returned to the rock wall pool I where I caught a 16"er on Monday, and after trying to match the hatch without the right color fly, I tried something stupid looking which was semi-almost-ish in the same realm of color as the flies that were buzzing about, and I found a taker who put up a decent fight, he was all of 17", and much heavier than Monday's catch.
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Below is the fly I used, and the type of fly that was hatching:
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did a trip there about 8 years ago. It was amazing to catch really big trout in that environment where it looks like you are on the surface of the moon (like your bottom pic).
How small did you have to go on the flies?
I think the Bright Dot was a 12. Though I've had good luck with 18 tricos, and 16 BWOs. If I'd had some 18 brown midges, or 16 mahoganys to throw, I would have had a better time of it, the air was thick with them, fish were rising all around my flies, but I only had three takes all day (landing the first strike), and was taunted by two big fish who sniffed and flashed away.
it'd seems to me if your only makin 5% of the oar strokes your stealths and positionings gonna suck 90 sums % of the timeQuote:
Originally Posted by neckdeep
but what do i know
Im jus in it for the hand callouses and chaco tan cred
super blessed and grateful to gits the old man and his new lady friend on the river for his 82nd dob
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fur team fectted the next day and stuck a few
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Sheldon
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sheldoned
watched a drone fly into the power lines across the river at Jarvie and crash n sink
wageslaved a dozen and headed back with the tgapp his sweetie a bro and the furteam
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stucks a few
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limited out on smiles
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Stoked me out to watch him row his first red creek rapid clean
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and to git the rubbers out a few times this season
floated a c the next day
stuck a few mur
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fur kids had fun
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full little send
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