Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Streamer Machine



Some days I go through a fishing trip with only a few goals: catch fish, lots of fish, and some big fish. On these days I become a machine. Today I was a streamer machine. I caught 33 fish, got a trout slam, and landed an 18 inch brook trout. For one stretch of pocket water I completely zoned out and let muscle memory do the work. I caught half of the fish in that 20 minutes, didn't photograph any of them. The 18 inch brookie and a similarly sized brown that threw the hook prematurely were in that set. It was what it was. I had only my big boat box of streamers and I only used a few patterns, and they worked. Sometimes it you need to put in the time, sometimes not.








8 comments:

  1. Those brook trout are as pretty as they come. Well done.

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  2. AWESOME!!! Nice water and a good bunch of trout. Your streamer technique is getting the fish. The water and the colors on the trout are special. Way-to-go Rowan!!
    Tie, fish, write and photo on...

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    1. Thanks,
      I'm still not perfect but it does get the job done.

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  3. Good grief, that's a good day! Nice work. Did the stocking truck just pull away before you got there ;)? That's a really impressive outing for that amount of time put in here in the East.

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    1. Thanks!
      These guys have been in the river for four weeks now.

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  4. Wow the brookies are sizable, does CT stock larger brook trout?

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    1. Some are pretty big. I've caught long ones up to 1 inches but skinny.

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