12-17-2014, 01:38 AM
"My twin posted a few pics of brown trout on a beach, no backgrounds. A few replies mention trying night fishing for browns with red headlamps. A few more replies later and its mentioned that the weber is the place to try that. The next day at a department store a guy asks for help to find red headlamps, and my twin asks, "by chance did you read BFT?" Why yes he did. He claimed he was headed there that night to try, so did my twin.
So how many other department stores did other people buy red headlamps, and head out to the weber that night, that week, that month? It's mind boggling how many probably did!! Sure enough that guy got a 24 inch brown that night, my twin got skunked."
Give me a break. People have been using lanterns to fish by at night for thousands of years. Somewhere way before you were born people started using black and red fishing lights. For what it's worth fluorescent green LEED lights outperform red lights quite handily in both salt and fresh water as well as under ice. Hardly a secret when it's all been done for decades by many. Second I've seen fish surveys were they find a brown over 25 inches every hundred yards on the lower Weber. Seriously I've caught bigger fish than that on back to back casts on the Weber. I'm forgetting his name but he'd show dozens of 24-28 inch browns he had to wade through to catch a brown over 30 inches on the Weber. Just how many fish do you think they're are in Utah? I'll bet it way over a hundred million. I have caught a hundred pounds of trout in a 1-2 miles stretch on a small stream maybe a fifth the size of the Weber in a few hours in Utah probable a dozen times a year for the last 10 years. If you're twin got skunked it wasn't because some guy caught the last medium size brown on the Weber while using a red light that night.
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So how many other department stores did other people buy red headlamps, and head out to the weber that night, that week, that month? It's mind boggling how many probably did!! Sure enough that guy got a 24 inch brown that night, my twin got skunked."
Give me a break. People have been using lanterns to fish by at night for thousands of years. Somewhere way before you were born people started using black and red fishing lights. For what it's worth fluorescent green LEED lights outperform red lights quite handily in both salt and fresh water as well as under ice. Hardly a secret when it's all been done for decades by many. Second I've seen fish surveys were they find a brown over 25 inches every hundred yards on the lower Weber. Seriously I've caught bigger fish than that on back to back casts on the Weber. I'm forgetting his name but he'd show dozens of 24-28 inch browns he had to wade through to catch a brown over 30 inches on the Weber. Just how many fish do you think they're are in Utah? I'll bet it way over a hundred million. I have caught a hundred pounds of trout in a 1-2 miles stretch on a small stream maybe a fifth the size of the Weber in a few hours in Utah probable a dozen times a year for the last 10 years. If you're twin got skunked it wasn't because some guy caught the last medium size brown on the Weber while using a red light that night.
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