A Brown Trout and Little Dell 11-9

[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

The full moon is always a skunking sign for me. So today I went out solo to try and change that. Went to an undisclosed location in search of Brown Trout for lunch. Got lots of followers on the Rainbow and Brown Trout Rapala's but no takers. After 2 hours I finally got a 16 inch Brown Trout on a gold Kastmaster. Not happy with the lack of action I bailed to Little Dell Reservoir. Got there around 2pm and man was it slow! Every half hour or so I would get a fish but that was just not fast enough for me. By 4pm I only had 4 fish. Then the fish turned on at 4:30 and it was fish on nearly every cast. At one point I felt a fish take my Strike King Baby Carp and then all the sudden the weight got WAY heavier. All I could do was try to reel what ever it was in. Near shore I finally saw what was going on. A 14 inch cutt had the front hook and a 20+ inch cutt had the back hook. Just like that scene with the 2 T-Rex's in Jarrasic Park 2, the 2 fish bolted opposite ways with their prize. The lure could not take the strain and the monster broke the back hook off of the lure! I threw the Baby Carp back out and kept getting bites but no hook ups. So with darkness setting in I switched to a crome with a black back Rattle Trap. With that I got the biggest fish of the day....a skinny, big headed 17.5 inch Cutthroat with amazing colors. I ended the day with 1 Brown Trout and 16 Cutthroat Trout. Guess I can't blame skunkings on the full moon anymore.
The 1st Cutthroat Trout of the day

A skinny but lengthy Cuttroat Trout

The 3rd Cutthroat of the day.

Your average Little Dell Cutthroat Trout

Little Dell just before the action started up

The rest of the Cutthroat Trout





The biggest and last Cutthroat Trout of the day

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[loganfreeman]

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very nice catch
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[TyeDyeTwins]

Well you have convinced me to get a baby carp now. 1st double on a single lure, now you need a tandem rig to get that all the time. Too bad you didn't land the beasts together.

Still I must say Evil Tye Dye skiing is way more fun, although it requires a ton more effort. Thankfully you got that brown earlier so I can have the taste of fish in my mouth again. Time for a brookie to come out of Little Dell!
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[Droolz]

That looks like it was a fun fun day. I have never been much of a trout fisherman, not really sure why. Don't get me wrong, getting a fish on the end of the pole is always good times. Just rather catch other species I suppose. But the woman can get bored at times if we spend more than 2 hours without catching anything. So maybe I will have to take her up there before the weather gets too unbearable for her. Thanks for the report man! Beautiful fish for sure!
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[Live4Fishn]

Hey, thanks for your posts. You guys gave me some pointers when I was up there at little dell a couple weeks ago. I have always fly-fished in the past so it was helpful to get pointers using the spinning rod. I went back there on Tuesday night and the bite was on from 4:00 till dark. Everything was the typical 14"-15" which got me thinking when I fished little dell in the past on the flyrod I always hooked in to 20 inchers in the inlet. I decided to go at first light this morning to the inlet to get a 20 incher. I put on a lucky craft pointer thinking it would target those larger aggresive cutts feeding at first light. I cast out where the water flows in, and second cast i got the take and brought him. He measured just over 20 inches. I wish I had a floating Rapalla because it was to shallow for the lucky craft pointer and I got a lot of moss after that. I moved to deeper water with the KastMaster and the fishing was hot untill about 8:30AM. I saw larger cutts cruising the shore. I brought a 14" in and there was a much larger cutt chasing him as I brought him in. I was wondering if he was thinking he could swallow him, but there was no way. He must have seen the lure in the others mouth like what you experienced minus the double hook up.
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[Live4Fishn]

One more pointer I figured out up at little dell. A while after the fishing slowed down I noticed fish chasing the Kasatmaster to shore but I was not getting any takes. So frequentlhy during my retrieve i would stop reeling comletely and let it drop for three seconds and then go again. they would hit on the drop. for the next few hours everything was caught using this method.
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[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

I noticed the same thing around dark about them taking it on the drop. However mid day if you feel a strike on the Kastmaster try speeding it up immediately and BAM...they take it EVERY time. Same goes for the Strike Kings too. Your right....the fish are much bigger near the inlet but all it took was me loosing a few lures there to stop fishing it. Plus now the "salad factor" is much worse there too.
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[TroutBumDave]

My brother and I fished it at dawn on the 9th. Damn, it was cold. I was using flies and my brother was using every spinner he had in his box. He finally broke the skunk with a gold kastmaster and continued to do well with that. I tried various colors/sizes of wooly bugger only to get one bite near the inlet, despite feeding/active fish all over the place. I guess something was wrong with my presentation that I just wasn't seeing. Ah well.

I fished the night before and to reiterate what others here have said, the bite seems to really get hot around an hour prior to darkness.

Did I mention it was cold? Because, damn.
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