Weather: Friday: Perfect. Saturday: good morning, rain and wind in afternoon. Sunday: Rain
Moon Phase: New Moon
Location: Flaming Gorge
Bait: Tube Jigs
Who Went: Rick Everson, Dustin Sisam, Me
I promised Rick a trip to the Gorge to show him how to catch a big lake trout, and in return he is going to show me how to catch big browns off the river. We got to the Gorge Friday evening and when we showed up the lake was glass! We hurried to set up Sisam's tent trailer and got on the water with about an hour to fish. There were lake trout all over in Linwood Bay, but none wanted what we had to offer. Once I said ok last drop of the night Rick pulled in what would be the only lake trout of the trip!
Saturday morning we woke up to a slight breeze, but nothing we couldn't deal with. We saw fish everywhere, sometimes stacked up 10 at a time. They wanted nothing to do with us. They would follow our jigs for about 10 feet and then head straight back down to the bottom. We did this for 4 straight hours until the wind came up and pushed us off the water. We hid in a cove where the wind couldn't find us and caught smallmouth after smallmouth and a couple rainbows, but nothing big. Then the storms came in! We got off the water and headed to camp. We tried waiting out the storm, but it never died down so we did what any die hard fisherman would do, we went out anyway. We might as well have just stayed in the trailer and played poker all night cause the wind was so brutal that we couldn't fish effectively. We got up Sunday morning to a monsoon, so we packed up and got out of there! The weather ruined another trip to the Gorge and thats getting old. We had fun though and I got to fish with some new faces. I hope Rick understands that some trips it just doesn't happen, and will still take me to his secret brown trout hole!
1 comment:
No Dunc, he doesnt understand! I guess thats why he insists on going every other weekend.I'll die a widow to those damn fish.
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