Headed up just past St. Anthony yesterday afternoon to see how the fishing was. As expected it was good! First cast I had a light hit then saw a decent brown following my rapala in right to the shore before heading back to deeper water. 3 casts later I hook up on a decent brown that was in the 18-20 inch range. A few casts later I Hook up again! I managed to land 4 and lost 1 before it slowed. About a half hour later I snagged on bottom. I tried popping it loose with no luck. Then I moved upstream to try shifting the direction of pull. Just as I applied some extra pressure the line starts pulling back! FISH ON! This one really was ticked, and plenty big since I initially thought for sure it was a rock. After a few minutes I got it landed w/ the help of my fishing buddy. A very nice brown. Over the next couple hours I landed a few more and lost a few. 2 rainbows were landed that were right around the 20 inch range. The rest were all browns in similar size. Didn't have any luck w/ the fly rod though.
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Those are some good looking browns. Water seemed incredibly low in town when we stopped at chiz's sat, May have to head up that way after class tomorrow
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That looks great! Those browns are looking healthy. Is the river quite low? I see that there is exposed moss on some of the rocks behind you.
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Great pictures. I really need to fish a river. I'm having a hard time getting out for the next couple of weeks.
Windriver
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Beautiful browns! Thx for the report. I'm headed up there next week. How were the hatches?
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beautiful fish [cool]
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The river wasn't really down any further than I'm used to seeing this time of year there, whether that helps or not I don't know [:p]. As for hatches there was a decent caddis hatch going on and fish were feeding on top further out than we could wade to be able to cast to where they were a lot of the time. Although my buddy did get several hits from smaller fish closer in just downstream of me.
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Were you North or South of St Anthony? I have fished a lot in town and not had a lot of success. You can PM if you want.
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Beauties, thanks for sharing the report and the pics. i really need to try to get out again sometime soon.
Was north of town a bit.
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