Last open water trip of the season!(?) **New PB's!** (pics duh!)

[Geezle]

Well it all started about a few weeks ago after EvilEddie and I got together and spent a day floating around catching some little pike. He had mentioned that he had never caught a brook trout and he really wanted to give it a shot before freeze up.

Now for anybody who knows me, I seem to have a really hard time catching the girly fish, but nevertheless I decided to give it a go and see what happens.

After talking with another forum member at wing night we chose a lake around 3 hours away that is supposed to be stocked with brookies, as well as having some decent rainbows in it.

So Saturday morning rolls around and we meet up at 6am, make sure the trucks are gassed up, grab a quick coffee and a bite to eat at McD's and we hit the road. The drive was pretty uneventful, and we got to the lake around 10am. We did a quick check of the campsite situation, and then we dumped our little tin boats in the water and got at 'er!

Since it's a new lake that we weren't familiar with we started off just trolling along the shore to get a feel for what was down there. It wasn't long before EvilEddie nailed his first rainbow, and it was a gooder!

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After a little more trolling he got another just a little smaller. At this point I'd gotten a little away from him, but after watching him catch 2 trolling the same Flatfish I was using, I decided to change it up to a Panther Martin with a little chunk of worm...again with no luck.

Eventually I got to a spot along some reeds where I had seen a couple blips of fish hitting the surface, so I figured since the trolling thing isn't working out for me I'll try something a little different. I tossed out my anchor and rigged up my second rod with a 1/64oz black jig head with about a 1" piece of worm threaded on, and a small bobber about 3' up. I tossed it out towards the reeds and sat down to wait, but I didn't have to wait long, because within probably 2 minutes I saw the bobber go down, pop back up, then go down again with gusto! I grabbed the rod, picked up the slack line, set the hook, and was rewarded by hearing the drag on my reel start screaming! After a fight that felt like it lasted forever I finally managed to boat what is by far my largest rainbow to date.
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Unfortunately I couldn't locate my scale for this trip, and I was so jazzed about this big ol' rainbow that I didn't even think to measure it. :sign0161:

So figuring I was on to something I stuck around in the area and repeated my experiment and managed several more rainbows, mainly in the 18"-21" range, with only a couple recent stockers showing up.

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EvilEddie in action!
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We kept one little pan fry for lunch, but it wasn't the best tasting fish I've ever had...probably be good if we went back in the winter though. Seriously, I think we only caught 3 this small all weekend...crazy!

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As the day wound down the fishing slowed off, but we stayed out there til we were pretty much totally in the dark.

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We pulled the boats up on shore, emptied our stuff out and headed up to our campsite, built a fire and cooked up some burgers before finally calling it a day.

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More coming...

[Geezle]

So Sunday morning rolls around, and it's a chilly one to be sure! Quite windy, and we got a little snow/drizzle, but that didn't dampen our spirits. It was actually kind of a relaxing morning, hanging by the fire with coffee, tearing down camp, having breakfast etc. :)

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And then we hit the water. Unfortunately with the wind as bad as it was we were rather limited as to where we could fish without being blown away, but we did find a shallow bay where we were able to tease a few fish out.

One big thing I noticed with the weather change is that on Saturday the fish were fighting like CRAZY, taking long runs and thrashing and jumping all over, whereas on Sunday they were biting very light, and when I finally hooked into them it seemed like they just didn't fight nearly as hard and came to the boat fairly quickly...almost like they were giving up :huh:

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And there it is. Possibly my last open water trip of the year...at least in the boat. At least we made it count! :sHa_shakeshout:

[CanadianBadass]

Those are some nice trout man, thanks for the share !

[FisherGrrrl]

Wow nice fish guys!!! Way to end the season off! And geezle I know how much you love open water trout fishing ;) this is definitely a very memorable trip I'm glad you guys did so well:) sweet .

[Alberta Bigbore]

Nice fat fish !!

[MoFugger21]

Beauties! :happy0034:

[tight line]

congrats on some nice Bows! too bad the Brookies didn't make an appearance.

[evileddie713]

Yeah would of liked some brookies but with us both getting new PBs cant complain. Anyways theres always hard water season!

[AppleJax]

Glad you finally broke your stocker streak! Cant believe there were no brookies caught, i seen lots last year and caught a fat little 17 incher. Looks like you guys had fun!

[Red Neck]

:):)Awesome fish even better burgers :):)
Thanks for sharing keep em coming
Red Neck Out :scared0018:

[huntin'fool]

sufferin succotash!
Nice slabs Jay.

[coppercarbide]

Nice trip!

Was the water in sloughs starting to freeze? Think it'll make one more weekend of open water?

[JohninAB]

Awesome trip, fish and report, congrats.

[Geezle]

Nice trip!

Was the water in sloughs starting to freeze? Think it'll make one more weekend of open water?

There was some ice in some of the sloughs, though I don't think any were totally frozen yet.

[1bluZebec]

Great job on the GREAT fish!

[Rstromerps]

Nice pics, and post guy's. What Lake? My mrs. has really never been a fan of trout fishing, I would like to take her out to a nice trout lake for a trip and see what she thinks. She has only stream fished for trout. Thanks.

[canadiantdi]

nice fatties!

[WayneChristie]

another great trip, congrats on the PBs. thems some fat girls for sure, but they all need lovin :bad_boys_20:

[AppleJax]

another great trip, congrats on the PBs. thems some fat girls for sure, but they all need lovin :bad_boys_20:

Usually you don't brag about those to your friends, but in this case....

[Lefty-Canuck]

Nice work guys! Looks like a heck of a trip.

LC

[Saltmania]

Nice trout. Good stuff. Thanks for posting.

[EZM]

Good post ............ some very nice rainbows.

Shore lunch confirms my theory - Some of the smaller muddy lakes stocked bows don't taste great ..... eating a fish from cool deep water versus a smaller muddy lake - you would swear you were eating two different kinds of fish.

Still sounds like it was a good time. Great post.

[kritofr]

Great report and beautiful fish

Man, I am not looking forward to winter (sorry to the ice fishers)

[Bhflyfisher]

you've convinced me to get out there this weekend. Nice to see that lake producing for someone. There are some real tanks in there.

[Bound2Fish]

Awesome trip report Geezle. Looks like it was a good time. Thanks for sharing.

[ETOWNCANUCK]

Definately some nice pics...I gotta get on that kind of action myself...maybe next year