In a few days, I will be blogging likely the best fishing trip I can recall.
I wanted to share (hopefully not boast) a really nice land that occurred on the last day of the trip. I landed this beautiful Rainbow Trout at Crowley lake mid morning. This fine catch is a Kamloop strain of Rainbow Trout that are charateristic of having almost a salmon look and feature.
Although I believe the picture does not do it justice, I believe the fish was in the 20-22 inch range and likely weighed in exceeding 3-3.25 pounds! I was so excited with the catch that we only took one picture and did not have the benefit of really measuring nor weighing the fish. The fish breached at least twice, ran my drag several times out at least 50 yards, and was difficult to net gently. I was using 4 pound test with 5x 3 pound test leader and a size 12 hook with nightcrawler (sorry I also used flies, artificials, and spoon lures). I only have one photo since I was urgently trying to release the fish safely back into the wild so someone else could enjoy it.
In retrospect, this would have been a good one for eating and should have kept it. Next season, someone will have a whopper of a fish.
So grateful that the good Lord created these wonderful times and opportunities. More to share later.
Approaching the final leg... Missing a real part of it...
