Weber River 5-6

[TyeDyeTwins]

Weber River - Arrived at noon. 1st cast my twin landed a brownie. We walked up and I had to un-snag my twins rapala as I had the waders on. Sure enough I thought hell why not throw a cast upstream. Well a huge brown came following with a mouth wide open, and it stopped and closed its mouth. I thought "crap it saw me, oh well set the hook". This thing peeled drag! I then realized I forgot the net! I tried 5 times to pick up the beast by hand only to have it swim vigerously out of my hand! I tried gill grabbing, tail grabbing, body grabbing, etc. The 6th time the beast un hooked himself. It was 23 inches long and FAT! I was about to puke and go home.

Never again will I set foot to fish without a net handy.
So a few casts later I was greeted by a smallmouth bass in a river.

A few more casts later another smallie got off the hook after a great battle. Oh well the browns were infesting the place and we had lots of fun. We drove to find angler access points and were happy to find one. I caught my 1st ever Mtn. Whitefish, crossing that one off the bucket list! More and more browns came to hand. We left at 8:15pm as the bite shut off at 7:45pm.

In total I caught 22 brown trout, 1 Mtn. Whitefish and 1 SMB. My twin caught 21 brown trout. I was using a blue fox gold spinner in size #1. My twin was using a rainbow trout CD3 rapala. 45 fish aint bad at all!

My Smallmouth Bass from the Weber River


My 1st ever Mtn. Whitefish for me.

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[Jazzperch1]

never pulled a smallie out of there. lower or middle weber? cool no matter what. was it on the fly?


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[Leaky33]

Pretty dang good for amateurs. [] Now do the same on a fly. [][] Seriously good on ya. Sounds like you needed Sparky's help. [shocked] A technique I use, if possible, in that situation, I wade the river with the big boy until I can find a shallow bank area to drag him up thru and even onto dry land, at least to where he can't get any swimming traction. Before doing this you've got to wear him down enough so he isn't flopping all over the place. Of course, if you are planning on release him, you've got to get him back in the water as soon as possible and spend some time reviving him before the release since he's probably a bit tired and stressed.
I fully realize that if you wanted to say where this was, you'd have posted it. Am curious where the smallie was, as you can imagine. Maybe send me a pm???
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[TyeDyeTwins]

1st thought that came to mind was "where the hell was sparky when you need him?"

Yes on the fly I would have worn him out better. Just 5 times of touching the beast.....Ugh that is gonna haunt me for a long time! I was in a very deep spot to both shorelines (belly button deep) and getting to the bank was risky as the semi fast flowing water was difficult to manuver through.

As I stated I am never leaving home without that net.
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[Jazzperch1]

ya theres bruiser browns in there that if you lose em they can make you sick to your stomach or cry.[]
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[TyeDyeTwins]

[quote Jazzperch1]ya theres bruiser browns in there that if you lose em they can make you sick to your stomach or cry.[][/quote]

What was funny was I thought "its just a river, I probably wont need it".

What a freaking bummer! Rest assured that will NOT happen again!
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[Jazzperch1]

one place we need to fish too is the middle weeb on the fly rod with big creature stoneflys and sow bugs behind em. the stonefly that i use are called "20 inchers" which is cool cause more times than not they catch fish close to 20 in. i fished it once this year nymphing and caught a bunch of browns and a ton of whitefish but none of the trout i caught had any size really. biggest was like a 16 1/2 inch cutty. the big ones have to play sometime.



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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Some fish are best when served over and over again in your "rememberies"...better than one or two meals.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Still, it is frustrating to not hold the fish and at least have the option as to whether or not it swims...in water or hot oil.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That's the stuff that keeps us excited about fishing and going back to those spots that produced the fish...even for a brief moment. They will always be there in our mind's eye. Oh yeah, and they keep growing with every year...even more than they grow in the water.[/#0000ff]
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