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Well, I did promise my folks I would bring them some fresh trout for Thanksgiving
| Jmd123 | November 5th, 2016, 5:58 pm | |
 Posts: 2611 | Last year at this time I broke my personal rainbow trout record on this same lake with a 16-incher. This one makes that one look small!! My new record measured 18 1/2" and weighed 3 pounds and took a #6 rainbow KBF with silver-painted lead dumbbell eyes, and fought like hell, jumping several times in the (at least) 5 minutes it took for me to get the net under her (5 very long minutes!). Everything held, but when I got her in the boat I saw the fly was out of her mouth, laying in the net...that was a close call!!! Being a stocker with no hope of reproducing in a lake with no streams, I took her home and found her to be full of eggs, and with some beetles and backswimmers in her stomach, and flesh pink like a salmon. Yesterday brought home a nice 12-incher that took, believe or not, a grasshopper imitation! I also got three other trout today that were 9-10" and so went back in. Also was visited several times by a magnificent bald eagle, and saw a hedgehog fungus on a log on the way in. Man, I sure can remember some shitty Novembers here in MI, but like last year we are again being gifted with beautiful warm weather, so fly fishing continues until further notice... Jonathon | |
| No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
| Partsman | November 6th, 2016, 3:04 pm | |
 Posts: 420 | Way to go Jonathon, I would just as soon skip winter and go straight to spring. I was up on the rifle a couple of weeks ago, my first skunk and when I got home my left knee was killing me, went to the doc. this week and found out I have a torn ligament. I have a hernia and now this that need to be repaired so I'm going to concentrate on healing for awhile. Mike | |
| PaulRoberts | November 22nd, 2016, 12:31 pm | |
 Posts: 1776 | WTG Jonathan! | |
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