07-18-2003, 01:26 PM
A number of years ago I was at Carolyn and was catching lots of grayling on flies. Suddenly, as I was reeling in a small grayling, I felt a mighty tug. I could not see the fish so I was not sure what I had hooked. Then the tension on the line just felt like a small grayling again. I felt another huge pull. Then the tension was light again. As the fish came in I could see that it was a grayling about 5 or 6 inches long. And then a huge cutt(18-20'', that's a monster in the Uintas) came zooming in and chomped on the grayling and tried to make off with it. When the cutt let go of the grayling again and was out of sight I called a buddy over to see. I gave the grayling some line and let him swim back to deeper water. After a second or two I reeled him toward me again. Sure enough, wham, in comes the big the cutt again and smacks the grayling. This time the cutt saw us and took off for good. This all happened in about 30 seconds. That was something to see. When I finally unhooked the grayling he had deep teeth marks all over him. Needless to say some of the guys switched from small flies to big lures. We didn't catch any big trout though.
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