We racked up the numbers with Ray and Steve. But these guys had high standards for photos as he set his PB with me last year with the last fish of the season measuring in at a 27” brown trout. There’s an appreciation post of Steve’s big brown at the end of this post .
Here is a photo of an injured and healing rainbow trout. Only speculative to know how the injury took place. But it is interesting to see how the rainbow trouts body regrows with different shades of colors around the injury. I have seen this before where talons from osprey or eagles are clearly defined on a trouts back and the skin heals and almost looks like different skin when it heals.
Then Bruce and Charley came out for a dry fly day. We had good action on Caddis and March browns in the middle of the day. But the hatch window only lasted about two/three hours. These cold nights have been shutting the bugs down early in most cases. With limited spinner falls in the evenings. A few Hendrickson spinners were seen yesterday.
We boated some feisty rainbows. We got to play a chess game with a big brown. We finally got him to eat our fly, hooked and fought him right to the boat. Just before he got to the net, the hook popped out. Oh well. Thats fishing.
We also identified some native Marsh Marigold flowers that are ever so gorgeous.
Here’s Steve’s 27” brown from last fall.