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I seriously love days like these. Don't get many in November so I grabbed it.

Headed for the hills for a fantastic day



Got there at a little after 8 so got to watch the sun come up and it was beautiful.
A little cool though but ready for it:



Hit the water and was still in a trance at the beauty



Oh and yes
the fish wanted to play, but they do hit lightly







All were released as soon as they gave me back my fly[laugh][laugh][laugh]


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Nice. Thanks for sharing. Least someone had a good day.
Damn Utes anyway[pirate]
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can only see red X's, weak sauce! email them to me if you can!! i also sent you an email about Dellany in CO!
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I KNOW!!!! I was drowning my sorrow, by drowning flies.[:/]
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I don't get it??? My time for slimmers is just about to start. [][][][][] Of course I'm a moving water fisherman, but you are too, when you have the urge aren't you? I've always had my best luck for the next 5 mos. [fishin] Some of my best fishing has been in a snow storm. [laugh] Since this is on the tube forum, you must be speaking of using the tube, right, sorry for not understanding, just slow. [frown]
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You got it. I am not done by any means. The Outlaw X5 are winterized, but the Renegades are staying inflated for awhile longer. Then like you, the RIVERS!!!!. I love that. Then we move over to the Fly Fishing boards....see you there[]
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[quote kochanut]can only see red X's, weak sauce! email them to me if you can!! i also sent you an email about Dellany in CO![/quote]


With Mac skills and good nature[][cool] It will be on my blog. Wonder why you get the RED X?[crazy]
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I have to agree---- it has been an awesome fall! This last week was amazing weather.

That is a beautiful Bonneville cutthroat you got. I hope you caught a ton of them!

Is that an orange woolly bugger?

We went out yesterday, but not on the tubes.
I am still having too much fun on the rivers and streams. No one else is out there fishing. I think they are all hunting, which is great by me!
Here is an Idaho version of the Bonnevilles that I picked up yesterday:
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Thanks, that is my chub special which is Tan with a red body.

I have been jealous of your river fish...our rivers are few and PACKED. Got to get up in your neighborhood,
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Have you tried your chub special at Chesterfield? I wonder if those larger Kamloops rainbows eat the chubs that are in there. I know that rainbows aren't much in the way of meat eating like cutts and browns, but once they get over say 18 inches do they start? Does anyone know?
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[cool][#0000ff]Kammies are definitely meat eaters. They ate all the kokanee out of lake Pend Oreille. But they got to be over 30 pounds before they ate themselves out of food.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In their native habitat they live on aquatic invertebrates...including snails, insect larvae, crawdads, etc. And if there is a good year round supply of the bitty bites they grow big and fat on that, without having to chase minnows. But some do apparently become more piscivorous and switch to a "seafood diet". Not a universal thing but not uncommon either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad you are still enjoying the fishing. Won't be long until the BIG CHILL sets in.[/#0000ff]
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Funny thing, no I haven't tried it at C, but I have at D and in the fall it does very well. In the Spring a white version.
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Thanks, TD, I kind of figured that most any fish over a certain size will munch pretty much any one smaller, but I have had a lot of people tell me that rainbows seldom do. I personally thought that didn't wash well, but I had no facts on the matter.

FG, That looks like really an effective pattern for a number of lakes around here. Is it one of your articulated ones, or is is tied pretty much standard WBugger?
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More Zonker/Matuka. With a marabou soft hackle collar.
I have made them with a stinger and I need to make some new ones up as they get mangled bad.
These are on a #4 streamer.
They work great on the rivers too. The Brookies in Henry's will hit it but the Cutts are iffy because they don't eat other fish either.

Try Black with purple or chartreuse body for the Bass....deadly
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[cool][#0000ff]I have fished quite a few waters...still and moving...around the country in which the rainbows foraged heavily on minnows. That includes the Snake River in Idaho. Used to fish it a lot as a kid and I would catch small sucker minnows on a piece of worm and then sail them out into the deeper holes on a bigger hook. Got both big cutts and bows on them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here in Utah almost all the rainbows feed on chubs, suckers, whitefish fry, fathead minnows, redside shiners...and even trout hatchlings. They are especially predatory on young-of-the-year perchlets in several of our lakes. Many of the bows we catch through the ice are full of perch fry. But the other food resources are not too plentiful in our unfertile waters during the winter so they gotta make a livin' somehow.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A few years ago, right after the "BIG DROUGHT" of the early 2000s, Yuba Reservoir was completely drained at low water to complete some work on the dam. That eliminated all of the perch and most of the walleyes and pike...a few of which survived upstream in the Sevier River. When the lake refilled after a heavy winter snowpack, DWR planted a bunch of rainbows to provide a fishery until the other warm water species could make a comeback. Good move. Without predators in Yuba the fathead minnows from the Sevier River had exploded and the lake was full of them. The rainbows glutted on them and grew fast...16 to 18"ers in a year...and 24 to 26 inchers by the end of the next year. There were some 4 to 8 pound "steelhead" coming out of Yuba...fattened on fathead minnows. They actually boiled on minnow schools and any fish kept usually had several fatheads in the stomach.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Then the perch population exploded, they ate all the fatheads and the growing pike population ate all the rainbows. Sad story. The point is that rainbows WILL eat minners and do well on them.[/#0000ff]
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Rainbows yes, and most cutthroat, but the gill nets of Henry's lake do not find them in the Yellowstone's belly.
Not saying they NEVER hit a small fish, but not for food apparently.

Or so I have been told[]
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I catch more and bigger fish at the trout ponds than the guys who fish traditional insect patterns. I seldom use the traditional stuff and flyfish with minnow imitating streamers, leeches and jigs.My friend catches most of his fish kicktrolling from his tube with a weighted fly under an indicator. Sometimes I have to revert to those tactics but usually I do well casting and stripping with a full sink line. Any fish over 16 inches will grab a minnow given the chance.

God Bless,
Don
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24 F-man thats cold ![] But few " silver salmon " sure
make up for it []
Thank you for sharing.

Peter
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I wish they were Salmon, I would be keeping a few.....I mean HARVESTING[cool]
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lol
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