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Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on July 06, 2013, 04:57 PM:
I got up this morning at 4:15am and headed up the mountain to do a little mountain stream fishing. I was on the water by 5:15am. I fished until 8:30am and enjoyed pretty much every minute of it. I caught around 20 or more trout. The really fun part (I mean besides fighting the fish) was never knowing what kind of trout I would catch. I got a good mix of rainbows, brookies, and browns. Pretty darn cool when a guy can catch a variety like that out of the same creek. It also doesn't hurt that this creek along with 4 other great creeks are all within 20 minutes or less of my front door. Life is good.
My fly fishing buddies call spin fishing (sin fishing). If that's the case I'm a die-hard sinner. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Here's just a few pic's.
Nothing like seeing a rainbow first thing in the morning to get one's day off to a great start.
While rainbows are purty little creatures there is just something extra special about brooke trout in a high mountain stream. I've caught them in some of the most rugged and remote places the West has to offer. This morning wasn't rugged or remote, just beautiful, quite, and only me on the creek.
To me, the brown trout are the tough guys of the trout world. They have varacious appetites. They fight hard and live in the most difficult fishing holes. Usually there is a tree roots or downed tree's in every really good brown trout hole and they know how to use every inch of it to break a line. I always enjoy it when I out-smart these fiesty fish.
Posted by The Terminator (Member # 4415) on July 06, 2013, 05:12 PM:
Sweet looking fish Troy!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 06, 2013, 05:56 PM:
Yeah, thanks Troy. I'm jealous.
That first one, I'm not really up on all the different strains but what color is the flesh? I have fished Lake Crowley a number of times and they have browns and several different strains of Rainbows, including one that looks a lot like a steelhead. It always makes my day to catch a Brown, that's for sure.
However, the obvious difference is Crowley is a 6 hour drive, versus your twenty minutes. You are fortunate, and I'm sure you know it.
Good hunting. Lima brav 0
Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on July 06, 2013, 07:27 PM:
Leonard, I couldn't tell you what color the flesh is because I can't stand to eat trout. Love to catch them and put them right back in the water. I don't know what strain this rainbow is. There seems to be two different strains in the creek. One looks quite different from the other.
I lived in Utah for way too many years to ever take Montana for granted. Even though I've lived in Montana nearly two decades I'm still amazed by the abundant fish and game. Even more amazing is fishing a creek like this, getting a strike in nearly every hole, and never seeing another fisherman all day. This, despite the fact that the creek runs right along side a county road. I've lived in this town for 6 years and have fished 4 of the 5 large creeks near my home. I'm planning on fishing the one I haven't fished yet early next week. It's a rattle snake haven, hence the reason I've been putting it off. Gonna wear my Big Boy waders and try it anydangway.
On a side note I was showing a friend of mine a new area to coyote hunt this afternoon. While driving in I spotted a coyote up on a cliff surveying his little kingdom. I ranged him at 320 yards. I turned to my partner and told him, "if that coyote is cocky enough to sit there long enough for me to shoot, I'm going kill that sucker." Well he was cocky enough and he caught a bullet. Anyway between me and the coyote was a tiny little creek. I'm talking an average 10 year old kid could hop back and fourth across it and not get wet. It's not all that deep either. Anyway as I approached it I was super surprised to see three brook trout, about a foot long each, just finning away. It never would have occurred to me in a million years this little trickle held fish, let alone fair sized brook trout. Learn something new everyday I guess. Oh and better yet the little stream is 5 minutes from my house. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Prune Picker (Member # 4107) on July 07, 2013, 12:20 AM:
Nice fish Troy. Seeing the pics makes me a little green with envy. I trout fish during the winter months at the Blue River it's about 30 miles south of here. Lots of Rainbows and a few Browns are stocked all winter. The past two years have been really great fishing because the drought conditions caused the DF&G to double and triple stock the Blue due to low and too warm water in the lakes they normally stock.
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on July 07, 2013, 09:15 AM:
Nice looking fish Troy.
From the looks of them they are all native fish or what I should say is fish that weren't born in a concrete raceway and fed pellets until they were dumped into a lake or stream.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 07, 2013, 09:48 AM:
I think they dump like a million fingerlings into Crowley right after the season closes in ?September, so it's not like normal stocking of concrete raceway pellet fed, etc.
Second, I forgot to mention my original thought about the first rainbow, that (to me) it looks like a cutthroat.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on July 07, 2013, 01:11 PM:
Lonny, good eye. No stocked fish in this creek or any of the others around my place. All natural reproduction.
Leonard I can see why you'd say that, but it definitely a rainbow and not a cutthroat. I've only caught one cutthroat out of that stream and it was just a little guy around 8".
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on July 07, 2013, 07:13 PM:
Very nice!
My son and I backpacked up into upper Rock Creek for a few days last weekend. Caught hundreds of little brookies. They were biting so good, it got boring. We were catching them on about 75% of our casts for the whole trip.
None were the size of what you have there though, all little.
But it sure was nice to get away from the valley heat for a few day. They tell me it was a new record, 105*, the day I went for a swim at 11,000' in fresh snow melt .
- DAA
Posted by ursus21 (Member # 3556) on July 08, 2013, 10:12 AM:
DAA, you look like a man that has his priorities in order. Man, I can't function in heat like that and I would be finding a high mountain lake myownself to camp at while it was that hot in the valley. Most of my kin stills lives in Utah and I don't know how they can stand it.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 08, 2013, 10:25 AM:
I just noticed, HE'S NOT WEARING PANTS!
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