Weekday trout-fest

[Joeytier]

Decided to hit the lake and try for some trout, since the conditions were perfect. NO wind, incredibly overcast skies, and a day after a strong east wind (which means off-colour water) meant perfect conditions too good to pass up.

 

We were fishing by around 5 and found some action right off the bat when I hit one on a twitchbait, only to have line break at the knot. The fish proceeded to dance around on the surface with my bait in its mouth. The next 70-80 minutes or so were quite slow.

 

Things started to pick up once we found a productive trolling pattern. The majority of our fish came while bringing our baits over a steep drop off tapering off from 9 to 14-15 feet trolling crocodiles and cyclops in natural finishes. We ended up finishing 9 for 11. I was more than happy. There is nothing that compares to the bone jarring hit of a brown.

 

The biggest fish, weighing in at almost nine pounds exactly.

 

The bigger of the two we landed on a double header right at dusk. From this view, it only looks about 4-5 pounds, but it was incredibly fat, that it was closer to eight.

 

The fog was extremely thick, and coming back after dark was a chore, and saw a boat out there running without lights on. Not a very good idea.

 

Now, back to the tribs with me.

Edited March 27, 2009 by Joeytier

[babaganoush]

are you sure those are browns and not atlantics??????

 

 

 

 

im sorry guys i had to........nice browns you got there

[Joeytier]

Oh, please, no!

[waterwolf]

beauty browns !!

 

thanks for the heads up on presentation .

 

nice work !

[Sinker]

Nice fish Joey! Good haul for sure.

 

Sinker

[Joeytier]

And again, I forgot my tourney sign.

[highdrifter]

NOICE!

[Cudz]

Those are vey nice looking fish indeed. Thanks for sharing.

[limeyangler]

Awesome fish JT, great report too....if i was fishing for those the description of the bait/tactics would be very helpful.

 

Cant believe you guys are already in boats...lol.

 

Forget that tourney sign again and there will be hell to pay....lol.

 

Good stuff, now get to the tribs with your tourney sign.

[Leecher]

Great report and pics Joey

 

Beautiful browns!! Congratulations

and thanks for sharing

Leechman

[douG]

Very pretty fish, Joeytier. Nice shootin'.

[ehg]

Those are some really nice browns!

Congrats on the fish, that place sure produces the browns and odd Atlantic.