He ended up texting later that week and said, "I figured them out", with a couple of nice pics. He loves to streamer fish and he's pretty darn good at it. That next Friday he ended up taking me to this little "private" location, which he calls his "honey" hole and what I've coined as, "Randy's Honey Hole". He set me up with a chartreuse clauser fly and within 5 minutes we had a double hook up and had landed 5 fish between the both of us. My buddy Dee ended up coming down and joining us, since it's about 5 minutes from his house, in fact, you pretty much can see his house from where we were fishing. Between the 3 of us we had landed over 20 fish and had just as many hits. No pics from this trip, but I will tell you, both Dee and I are HOOKED when it comes to streamer fishing.
Now back to my trip from today. Randy ended fishing earlier in the day, just above Taggert's and did very well. Dee was trying to get off of work so he could join me, but was unable to do so. I finished up with my listings by about 2:30 and thought I needed to try my "clausers" that I tied up 2 weeks ago.
Right of the bat I notice a very heavy blue winged olive hatch and was seeing a lot a action on the surface, a bubble here, a nose there and a few swirls. But I was eager to fish the "Glauser's". I had a number of hits within the first 5 to 10 minutes, but no hook up's. I was starting to learn the slight hesitations in my retrieve, a slow take and once I figured this out I was landing fish after fish. Within 45 minutes I had landed 10 nice browns, nothing under 15 inches and the largest being 18" and all of these fish were slabs, very thick and hefty. The BWO hatch was still going strong, so I tied some 5x tippet to my 2x leader and tied on my size 18 BWO emerger. I had 5 hits, but was unable to hook any trout. I realized I was pulling the fly out of thier mouth and setting to early before they really had the fly in thier mouth. I went to the "1 Mississippi" count and on 2 would set the hook. Pay dirt, that was the ticket. I was catch cutthroat after cutthroat. The biggest of these was about 16"
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| 18" brown with a chartreuse "Glauser" |
but nothing under 12".
It was getting closer to 5:30 and I wanted to go back to the Glauser and see what more damage I could do. Landed a few more nice browns and of course saved the best for last. I placed one more cast to a riffle right off the rocks, felt the hesitation and set the hook. At first I thought I snagged onto a rock and then all of a sudden the water started to boil and this pig of fish came to the surface, flipping spinning and trying to throw that hook out. Knowing that this was a pig I worked my way to the shore to try and hand land it. I worked my way to a shallow location, had this fish at my feet, laid down my rod on the shore and while holding the line with my left hand, reached down to hand the fish with my right. He had one more burst of energy and the next thing I know the dumb bells from my Glauser hit me in the side of my head. Knowing I don't have the largest feet, size 7 to be exact, he was well behind my heel and well out in front of the toe of my, Redside Korkers. He was at least pushing 20"+ and just as thick!!
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| 15" cutty with a size 18 bwo emerger |
Over all an EPIC day on the water and a lot of thanks to Randy for showing me ropes about streamer fishing. I fished 2 colors of the "Glauser" chartreuse and olive, both patterns worked well. I have tied them with red eyes/dumb bells as well as silver, but I did catch the last fish on the olive w/ red eyes. Fishing with 2x 7.5 leader with floating line. I was also throwing a size 18 bwo emerger that I tie with a hot orange wing/indicator to help see this fly on the water. I just tied in a 5x tippet to my existing 2x leader and this seemed to work just fine. The fish didn'tseem too spooky and I did throw my Glauser right through those cutties while sipping the bwo and it didn't seem to bother them.
Get out there and slay some fish and I hope to see you on the water!!
~Arch
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