Jennie@ifish
07-29-2007, 06:49 PM
Posted this on the main board, but shoulda posted it here! Those salmon and tackle guys won't appreciate it!
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I'm so excited I can barely type!
I'm just shaking!!!
When I caught my 21 inch cutt, Bill said it was the cutt of a lifetime. Well, maybe... but I've come close in the last three years!
I caught one 19 a couple years back and tonight, and 18.
I caught it on a big spruce fly. I have been doing so well on that fly!
Anyhow, I got it in a Christmas card from a friend. I hope I never lose that fly!
OK, so I'm cooking dinner and I just had to go. I 'set it and forgot it' and left Bill with instructions... The potatoes... yadayada, the blueberry crunch bread, yadayada... the steak on the Traeger, (more yada...)
and left!
Out the door she flew with Kilchis and Revvie by her side.
Since the rain, there has been some nice cutts, so this is one time I didn't lay my rod down and enjoy the scenery. I was there to FISH!
I cast and cast... It seems like, though, if you cast up into the riffles and let it play down into the pool, it really helps. Like way up in the riffle! So, I did.
But, got tired of that after a while....
So, I tried this one last daring cast under the shade of a tree. This isn't the oak tree hole, though... A different tree.
Dang. Into the tree I went. I knew it was risky!
Jim Erickson taught me this neat wiggle trick to get lures/flies out of brush. The line was sweeping in a "J" with the current. I picked that up and held it in the air and gave it the Erickson twitch. Sure enough, it tickled out of the tree and into the........ SPA----LOOSH! SPLASH!
Oh My.....
And before I knew it, I was playing a BIG trout! I got to palm my reel! I rarely get to do that, but this time I HAD to! What a hoot! I was screaming and hollering and no one was listening. (I don't think! :laugh:)
Rev had split somewhere, but Kilchis was watching. I kept saying, "Kilchy... this is a BIG one! Kilchy! I got a BIG one!!!!" We laughed.
Then, I saw this golden color... I thought... what the???
But, it was just a big resident cutthroat with big, deep dark spots all over her!
The hook was just barely in the top of her cute little smiley mouth~! I was lucky!!!! It came right out! (The barb was crimped.) I held her next to my rod for just a measuring second and it went from ... there to there. I pinned it with my hands after she swam off, and breathlessly walked to the house muttering still, "Rev! Where are you!? Kilchy! I got a big one! Bill!!!!!!! BILLLLLLL! (repeat all the way to the house!)
Finally, Bill measured it at 18 inches!
Wahhhhhhhhhhh hooooooooooooooooooooo!
Dinner time!
Fishy fishy in the brook,
Jennie catch her with a hook
But Jennie cooks the steak in a pan
and eats it all just like a man!
I'm HUNGRY!
...and I love that blueberry bread I make!
Catching fish like that sure is good for the appetite!
:cheers::cheers::cheers:
Jen
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I'm so excited I can barely type!
I'm just shaking!!!
When I caught my 21 inch cutt, Bill said it was the cutt of a lifetime. Well, maybe... but I've come close in the last three years!
I caught one 19 a couple years back and tonight, and 18.
I caught it on a big spruce fly. I have been doing so well on that fly!
Anyhow, I got it in a Christmas card from a friend. I hope I never lose that fly!
OK, so I'm cooking dinner and I just had to go. I 'set it and forgot it' and left Bill with instructions... The potatoes... yadayada, the blueberry crunch bread, yadayada... the steak on the Traeger, (more yada...)
and left!
Out the door she flew with Kilchis and Revvie by her side.
Since the rain, there has been some nice cutts, so this is one time I didn't lay my rod down and enjoy the scenery. I was there to FISH!
I cast and cast... It seems like, though, if you cast up into the riffles and let it play down into the pool, it really helps. Like way up in the riffle! So, I did.
But, got tired of that after a while....
So, I tried this one last daring cast under the shade of a tree. This isn't the oak tree hole, though... A different tree.
Dang. Into the tree I went. I knew it was risky!
Jim Erickson taught me this neat wiggle trick to get lures/flies out of brush. The line was sweeping in a "J" with the current. I picked that up and held it in the air and gave it the Erickson twitch. Sure enough, it tickled out of the tree and into the........ SPA----LOOSH! SPLASH!
Oh My.....
And before I knew it, I was playing a BIG trout! I got to palm my reel! I rarely get to do that, but this time I HAD to! What a hoot! I was screaming and hollering and no one was listening. (I don't think! :laugh:)
Rev had split somewhere, but Kilchis was watching. I kept saying, "Kilchy... this is a BIG one! Kilchy! I got a BIG one!!!!" We laughed.
Then, I saw this golden color... I thought... what the???
But, it was just a big resident cutthroat with big, deep dark spots all over her!
The hook was just barely in the top of her cute little smiley mouth~! I was lucky!!!! It came right out! (The barb was crimped.) I held her next to my rod for just a measuring second and it went from ... there to there. I pinned it with my hands after she swam off, and breathlessly walked to the house muttering still, "Rev! Where are you!? Kilchy! I got a big one! Bill!!!!!!! BILLLLLLL! (repeat all the way to the house!)
Finally, Bill measured it at 18 inches!
Wahhhhhhhhhhh hooooooooooooooooooooo!
Dinner time!
Fishy fishy in the brook,
Jennie catch her with a hook
But Jennie cooks the steak in a pan
and eats it all just like a man!
I'm HUNGRY!
...and I love that blueberry bread I make!
Catching fish like that sure is good for the appetite!
:cheers::cheers::cheers:
Jen