Fish,Flys,Doubleheaders,and a Griz Bear

[Daceminnow]

another fine morning on the water. only 1 degee @ 7am above arrival. brisk wind all morning making it very choppy. watched a beautiful young bear on the way up. caught many pretty cutthroat, and a few bonus bulls. there were a couple bugs around, and we hooked up on a couple doubleheaders. best part, all fish were landed on Jr. tied patterns.

Dace

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[Daceminnow]

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[drifter]

Awesome Dace.
Thanks I enjoyed the pics.

[Dust1n]

your pics are awesome i like the mayfly one!

[Flyfisher87]

Dace, were you at your favorite lake again? Nice pics :)

[goldscud]

Great shots. Looks like the Bulls in the Upper lake need some more groceries compared to their kin to the east. What is the average size of the Cutts you're getting?

[BBJTKLE&FISHINGADVENTURES]

Wow look at all the snow still up in the mountains . Insane , Awesome fish and nice Grizz . Good way to wake up id say .

[BeeGuy]

Wow, great photography and gorgeous cutties! Here I thought all the upper cutties were 12''. Very nice. Think I might have to toss some hardware further west and quit playing with the sows to the east.

[Alberta Bigbore]

Awesome pics.... Congrats on some fine fish.



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[walking buffalo]

Great Pics Dace,

That Cutty has big eyes.... guess you need them to live in that lake. :confused0074:


Good looking young bear. Have you reported the sighting to the Grizzly Bear Survey?

For the people who are unaware of the Survey, please take a look, and report you 2011 Grizzly Bear sightings to the Willmore Foundation.

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=89587

[densa44]

It would be nice if you added a pic of your mayfly tied by jr.

[WillyOneStyle]

It would be nice if you added a pic of your mayfly tied by jr.

x2 and if he's willing, a recipe.

[Daceminnow]

Great shots. Looks like the Bulls in the Upper lake need some more groceries compared to their kin to the east. What is the average size of the Cutts you're getting?

yes, all the bulls we've hooked out of there have been really lean. they fight surprising well though and a lot of fun on the 3wt. each time you'd think it was a good rainbow some nice runs, just no aerial show. the average size cutthroats have been 14". we did land some yesterday closer to 18" and they had beautiful deep colors.

[Daceminnow]

Great Pics Dace,

That Cutty has big eyes.... guess you need them to live in that lake. :confused0074:


Good looking young bear. Have you reported the sighting to the Grizzly Bear Survey?



Yes.

[Daceminnow]

It would be nice if you added a pic of your mayfly tied by jr.


we were not fishing mayflys, sorry. our go to fly of the morning was a leech pattern we call "Scottys Leech" after a late friend of ours. our boxes were starting to run low of that particular pattern that we had of his, so JR spun us up a bunch more. he did a good job, they worked very well.

[Braun]

awesome. Great picture great fish. looks like alot of the snow is coming off the mountains. Jr. is really good at tying flies eh. Does he create alot of his own unique patterns?

That sure is nice of Jr. to let you take pictures with his bulls...... One day I am sure you will catch one that big dace...... one day.......

[TheFishHunter]

Awesome photos. Great looking fish!