Couldn't say it was as lights out fishing as it was last Sat. but still it's pretty hot! We had to expand the trolling area a little- it seems like they may have spread out some now. It was pretty great weather midday for awhile:
Of course it's May in the mountains! Can't last forever!
Two of us caught 106 trout and two bull trout-carbon copies of last weeks- 18-20 inchers. Most of the trout were caught on the same fly as last week, but for awhile we had to use a black wooly bugger to get them to hit. That worked well for 2 or 3 hours.
The biggest excitement of the day was when we were reeling in a trout in the river- there was a big splash on the surface near the fish! We saw a big white shape just slashing back and forth at the trout- it was the belly of a big bull trout- the trout was kinda hooked on the outside of the gill and it was coming in in a sort of death spiral motion- that bull trout was after it!
Splashed and slashed again and then disappeared.
This is what our hearts were doing!
WOW!
Later in the same area I hooked a trout and played it a little in the fast current- we took the boat out of gear to float down to the fish. Oh crap-I'm snagged I said- it stopped wiggling and is stuck. As we got almost over it, I felt a little wiggle again but solid resistance at the same time- I must be around a tree limb or something- then we saw a big fish dancing around by the trout underwater- then my fish popped loose- that bulltrout had it in it's mouth and just let go!!!
Holy cow those things ARE HUNGRY TODAY!
The day ended kinda like this:
We left at 9pm and got back to town at 11:30pm after a short nap on the way to keep the eyes open! Not a thing to complain about
Jim
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