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Before i begin this little spiel, i must warn everyone who reads it.... NEVER under any circumstances, even if it involves life and limb, NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER let orvis1 row a drift boat.... that being said on we go...

i made it to Dripping Springs around 6 am friday morning to a nice cool morning, set up camp, called orvis1 to make sure everything was set and started fishing... at 8am near the boat launch by the damn i made my first cast and hooked into a rainbow all of 10 inches, but pretty colored... i walked down stream about 2 miles casting every where i could until a certain guide service named Old Moes, kept running their drift boats over my line, or would row their boat within inches of where i was casting and then proceed to tell me they were fishing this hole.... wow, what A-holes, and it was only them, all other guys would say excuse me, or ask if they could fish the hole i was fishing when i was done.

anyway i caught one or two little tiny dinks here and there, and around noon i hiked back up to the truck and headed to camp to grab a sammy and a quick nap. around 3 i went to little hole and there was a crazy BWO hatch popping off. i hooked up with a few more tiny fish there, but again all dinks, largest fish of the day for me was all of 11 inches, maybe 12..

by now its around 6pm and i went back to camp and waited for orvis1 and stevo to show up. once they got there and we got camp set up we crashed.

saturday came bright and early, we were on the river around 0715... i hooked up with the first 2 fish, both bows, on a streamer from the far shore... both went about 14, but had the fattest bellies i have ever seen, see pic. orvis1 caught a dink bow on his very first cast with a jig TD made him. we countined down pulling off at every sweet looking spot we found. orvis1 would pick up one or two on his jig, me one on a streamer, lose one on a nymph rig, and stevo nothing yet.

we pulled over for lunch about 1pm and there is when i got big the first regualr (16 to 17 ionch) brown of the trip. we moved down and i picked up one more regualr decent sized brwon and then that was it for me for the day. we found a back water eddy that had current running in both directions, and stevo finally picked up his first bow, and then 2 casts later another one that flipped out of his hand before we could get a pick.

i rowed mother in law and the rock garden and got us behinde a boulder where orvis1 was flipping a jig and caught a damn nice brown... that was the last fish of the trip and where the fun begins. orvis1 wanted to row the rest of the river since the technical stuff. we get going through a few fun riffles and banging off rocks some how, he managed to paint a bullseye on a boat 50 yards away and try to hit it, and he had success!!! everyone was fine and we were all laughing about it, even the other boat.. we then proceed down river heading to the restrooms and he manages to find the only rock in the middle of the river and puts the boat on it sideways, which allows us to take on a ton of water, me to have 2 drops of pee come out, and almost flip us... luckily stevo and i were quick thinking and shifted our weight and the water spit us out. he than managed to almost mow down a wading angler.... never again lol..

sunday we went up into the basin and had a friggen blast. while the other two guys were rigging tubes i was casting a streamer and nailed the first spawning bow, and man talk about colors... we trolled streamers around and i caught a bow that went about 12 inches, but had a gigantic hump on it, see the pic, it looked like a salmon.

once we all came in for lunch orvis1 went back out on his tube and caught a total of 13 from there, all fat and around 18 inches, these trout would pull him in his tube. stevo and i chronimid fished from shore and had a freaking blast. those fish fight harder than any other rainbow i have ever caught. we were catching them on every thing from 22 zebra midges below a larva, to clouser minnows, to scuds and leeches. the first lake we stopped at we were coated in scuds, see pic.

orvis1 got the big fish of the day from the lake the squirted knuckle children all over him, it was a beauty buck bow, see pic (orvis1 has).

We ended up leaving there at 7pm on the nose and i dident get home until 1158pm.

this trip was an absolute blast!!!! even though i only went to two of them, i am hooked on those high mountain lakes!! its quiet, pretty, and you have a chance some nice sized fish with a ton of color!!

i am at work so when i get home i will post the pics i have.... orvis1 has the rest of the pictures and will hopefully post the rest he took. great fishing, great food, great time, cant wait to do it again!!!!!

enjoy!
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i have to give a shout out to Doug of Trout Creek flies, he went above and beyond to make sure we were well taken care of, and because of that he will always have my buisness!
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pics, orvis1 has the rest
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Sounds like a great trip. We hope to have a similar trip in mid June. You need to camp at mustang ridge so you have a few trees at camp

It has been a long time, but I remember fishing Browne lake and Teepee lake and catching pretty fish like that. Great pics.
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It was a blast here are some photo's:

Here are some more shots of the trip:

The green river:



A brown:



Stevo hooks up:



The drift boat I almost had to buy:



Kokonut's bow:



Orvis1 Bow:


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I'm not a trout fisherman but what a great looking trip. I would love to do that one day.
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I haven't fished the A section in well over 5 years. I'm curious has the average size fish declined as dramatically as this report indicates? Place always seemed more of a fish farm to me but at least they had some size even if they didn't fight.
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I agree. I haven't fished it for a few years but it seemed to me that 15-22 was the normal here. It seemed this trip 12-18 was the size of the fish and a ton more rainbows than browns. Still can't beat the scenery and it was a fun trip!
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Supersized or not that looks like it was a ton of fun.
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[cool][#0000ff]Nice work. Purty fishies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]What "flavors" worked best?[/#0000ff]
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for me it was 24 zebra midges
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Copper pats but of course... On the lakes a brown leech or grey scud was the key..
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[quote kochanut]for me it was 24 zebra midges[/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]Don't they make those in men's sizes?[/#0000ff]
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ha! no, only little girl sizes for me, custom made
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