» Topic: Snowy Fishing

This topic has 9 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated Dec 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm by T. Wiles.

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Dec 7, 2008 at 2:42 pm #3673

T. Wiles
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What a day…A Cooooooooold morning with thick frost blanketed everywhere and ICE clogging the guides and locking up my reel.

Dec 7, 2008 at 2:56 pm #31576

anonymous
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Great work Travis.

Dec 7, 2008 at 4:05 pm #31577

Tim Pommer
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Travis – You always seem to pull out nice fish EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT!

Share some of that mojo.

Dec 7, 2008 at 6:18 pm #31578

tradd d
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Brrr I think I will have another cup of coffee this thread gave me the chills…nice day out!

Dec 8, 2008 at 12:22 am #31579

kevin miquelon
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The solitude gained chasing winter trout is worth the cold fingers…great pics…thanks for sharing!

Dec 8, 2008 at 2:35 am #31580

bill webster
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I also love fishing in the snow.

Dec 8, 2008 at 2:42 am #31581

Neal Osborn
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Nice series Travis!

Dec 10, 2008 at 7:40 pm #31582

Chad Simcox
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That’s some of my favorite weather to be fly fishing in. Then again, I also have fun in the rain… Of course, as long as there is no lighting or heavy winds I like to be out.

Great fish! Those colors are amazing and those browns are some bruisers. Hope you weren’t pulling them off their redds.

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Dec 10, 2008 at 9:22 pm #31583

Corey Kruitbosch
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Winter is my favorite time to fish, also.. Nothing beats the quiet of being out in the middle of a big snow storm fishing! Great photos and those browns are fantastic! Size and colors are just stunning!

Dec 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm #31584

T. Wiles
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Thanks for the replies guys.
Escaping crowds is my game. Although some fish were staged in gravel shoals….the best fishing came from chest deep seams in flat water beside a clump of large submerged boulders. The fish were not visible, and remained glued to the bottom in the frigid water, and finally gave in to tiny emergers and size 20 midge pupae ticking the bottom.

About the time my brother said, “I’m cold….we should head out…they’re not really biting anyway…” That was the moment I finally got my tippet/fly/lead combo dialed in…then the catching began. In a 40 yard stretch of water that we had previously neglected, we began hooking several nice fish, and even had on a few doubles as we tandem drifted, the slow, subtle hole.
On two occaisions, (once for me and once for Jay) we had this scenario: a firm set the hook with solid stop in the rod. A couple of tugs later to free the rock from the fly..we realized they were fish with mighty side to side head shakes. Neither of us saw either fish, but the subtle calm, then the brief chaos of zinging drag rattled us both into expressions of terror.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the peace of this wonderful winter
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