good and bad news. I got 2 and missed 2. sick and tired of losing fish so i switched back to treble hooks.
good news is that there are plenty trout left. nothing like opening day but enough to keep me coming back. witnessed several fish jumping thru out the morning. it means they are active and available. :mrgreen:
bad news.... mike (basscaster) missed an early morning hit which means he's still skunked for the trout season. hang in there mike, your bound to get one. i admire your persistence, patience and determination to get one. kudos!!
funny thing happened. as i was about to string up my second trout, i slipped and the fish popped out of my hand and into the water. i tried to scoop it up but he managed to escape my frantic attempts to grab it. he was wounded pretty bad from a deep treble hookset. i saw him head towards the deep end but ended up about 8 feet from shore in some weeds belly up. i just happenned to have my baitcaster with an inline spinner with me so i started to pitch this spinner in the attempt to snag the trout back. everytime i touched him he would struggle and get deeper and deeper in the weeds. after about a dozen tries, i finally snagged him right in the tail and dragged him ashore. funny how that worked out cause i was never really good at pitching, but somehow i was pitchin that thing like denny brauer, farther and farther with each attempt. :mrgreen: not only did i get my trout back, because of that trout, i dialed in on my pitching stroke.
