Hookmanski
04-19-2020, 01:31 PM
Explored new water yesterday and had another free morning today, so I decided to do the same thing! Explored some new spots looking for wild trout. Took me quiet awhile to find them today, probably went to 6-7 spots along the stream before I found anything.
Walked up to the first really good looking hole and thought "Oh yeah, theres a trout in here." Took a cast and saw a nice brown swipe at my spinner, i jigged it once and he hammered it again and I netted the first nice fish of the day.
https://i.postimg.cc/NGNFktZy/IMG-8431.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wMP68qd0/IMG-8433.jpg
Kept hopping around from spot to spot looking for more holes that looked like that first one. Found another one and again landed a nice one on my first cast into the hole.
https://i.postimg.cc/qBZBCLCy/IMG-8436.jpg
Walked downstream and found a juicy looking eddy pool. Took a few casts and didn't get any hits until the 5th cast, where i got slammed by something but it missed the hook. Ended up being another brown that followed right to my feet and turned away. I took one more cast and got him, the biggest of the day. Pulled drag and took a few acrobatic jumps before I slid him into the net.
https://i.postimg.cc/pry2693m/IMG-8437.jpg
Nobody in any of these spots either. I jumped around a few other places to see if I could find a rainbow so that i would've caught the big 3 trout species in one weekend, but all of the other spots I went to were..... MOBBED. One spot had 8-10 people and social distancing was not happening. Be careful everyone, we don't want more restrictions than we already have! Despite this, I had a great morning in the woods exploring new water. Hope you and yours are healthy. Tight lines! :D
Walked up to the first really good looking hole and thought "Oh yeah, theres a trout in here." Took a cast and saw a nice brown swipe at my spinner, i jigged it once and he hammered it again and I netted the first nice fish of the day.
https://i.postimg.cc/NGNFktZy/IMG-8431.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wMP68qd0/IMG-8433.jpg
Kept hopping around from spot to spot looking for more holes that looked like that first one. Found another one and again landed a nice one on my first cast into the hole.
https://i.postimg.cc/qBZBCLCy/IMG-8436.jpg
Walked downstream and found a juicy looking eddy pool. Took a few casts and didn't get any hits until the 5th cast, where i got slammed by something but it missed the hook. Ended up being another brown that followed right to my feet and turned away. I took one more cast and got him, the biggest of the day. Pulled drag and took a few acrobatic jumps before I slid him into the net.
https://i.postimg.cc/pry2693m/IMG-8437.jpg
Nobody in any of these spots either. I jumped around a few other places to see if I could find a rainbow so that i would've caught the big 3 trout species in one weekend, but all of the other spots I went to were..... MOBBED. One spot had 8-10 people and social distancing was not happening. Be careful everyone, we don't want more restrictions than we already have! Despite this, I had a great morning in the woods exploring new water. Hope you and yours are healthy. Tight lines! :D