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Those of you who want some great trout fishing but can't seem to get any, you can live vicariously through me and my bro....
We are heading out for the 4th to fish at West Yellowstone. Going to be fishing Hebgen again, it has become a yearly event now since 99. Usually we trailer up and spend 2 weeks doing the family activites as well, but this trip will be a quicky.
We generally get more than our share of 2-3lbers, and those are picked up on the Calebetes hatches between 8-12am. In fact we have had to let go 18-21" trout in more than a few occasions because we had our limit of larger fish. Without the family going we will be hitting the lake first and last light. Going after big browns in the wee hours. My biggest brown there is 5lb 3oz. Just a little guy in the brown bag world, but I hope to get double digits with some of the tactics I have gleaned from those here on the board.
Any last minute tips for hunting big browns would be welcomed.
Plan of attack:
I expect to work the fringes of the weedbeds up the madison channel early AMs trolling J11/13 jointed and fixed raps. I might even drag them down with a Jet10 as well.
I don't have deep water tactic figured out yet, I don't know where the bigger fish will be holding, 50-60 deg? I can't find a contour map of the lake and I even email directly with the guy that controlls the water level at PPL, but he has never seen one. We will start the deep water stuff down near the damn.
Oh, I have another source for local fishing tips....call the local taxidermist :grin:
gus
We are heading out for the 4th to fish at West Yellowstone. Going to be fishing Hebgen again, it has become a yearly event now since 99. Usually we trailer up and spend 2 weeks doing the family activites as well, but this trip will be a quicky.
We generally get more than our share of 2-3lbers, and those are picked up on the Calebetes hatches between 8-12am. In fact we have had to let go 18-21" trout in more than a few occasions because we had our limit of larger fish. Without the family going we will be hitting the lake first and last light. Going after big browns in the wee hours. My biggest brown there is 5lb 3oz. Just a little guy in the brown bag world, but I hope to get double digits with some of the tactics I have gleaned from those here on the board.
Any last minute tips for hunting big browns would be welcomed.
Plan of attack:
I expect to work the fringes of the weedbeds up the madison channel early AMs trolling J11/13 jointed and fixed raps. I might even drag them down with a Jet10 as well.
I don't have deep water tactic figured out yet, I don't know where the bigger fish will be holding, 50-60 deg? I can't find a contour map of the lake and I even email directly with the guy that controlls the water level at PPL, but he has never seen one. We will start the deep water stuff down near the damn.
Oh, I have another source for local fishing tips....call the local taxidermist :grin:
gus