Fishing Forum

After reading so many of Utcatman's post on the weeb I gave in an ran down there for a couple of hours. I usually don't fish it. I grew up fishing the madison and small feeder creeks and rivers that flow into it. I have to admit that it has turned me into a brown trout snob. However Utcatman's posts have been full of pictures of fish that I would be very pleased with on the madison so I figured why not. I tried the tube jig thing. I only had a couple of follows and landed one 14" rainbow. I then switched to my standard #13 rainbow rapalas that I use in montana. Those didn't produce one roll. I was about to give up and decided to try one more bait. The most basic of all brown trout attractors. A mephs 3 gold algea. (I cut the red off of all mine). That was the ticket. Over the next hour I rolled maybe six fish and landed three. The biggest was a fat hooky that was probably 19-20. Rolled some maybe a little bigger but not by much. I haven't been to montana for a year or so becuase of school. It was really good to see that flash of orange again.
Fishjon
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Nice report. I still have a hard time getting my dad to fish any streams in Utah because we have been so spoiled in Montana. Until the weber made the blue ribbon stretch I even had a hard time fishing the weeb. It has come a long way from what it was about 10 years ago. I can now expect to catch plenty of fish that exceed the 18 inch mark and plenty of smaller ones. When I first started fly fishing there all I could catch were white fish. HUNDREDS of white fish. Spinners always produced trout but kept the whities off my line. Now days I can effectively double fist (fly rod in one hand and spinners in the other) that way I can really do some damage. As soon as the lakes freeze over I can triple fist I just got to grow another arm that can carry the shotgun...lol
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