We've got this "secret lake," known only to the locals who know somebody where I've tried for years to catch the elusive Golden Trout. Well, after back packing in there, so I could fish early and late, I finall did it after four previous failures using a day hike.
It took a #18 Adams, which was small enough, but not quite the right color. I missed the first strike, another got off after the second, and I missed the third strike, but finally hooked up on the fourth hit. And landed a nice scrappy, 9 inch golden. My very first golden, and done with a dry fly no less.
I've done lots of rainbows, a brown or two, and a brookie on flies, now I have to get a cutthroat. Not very common in my country. Oh well, that's the fun and challenge of fly fishing.
I find it a bit odd that prior to my retiring, and moving near the mountains, I did lots of other fishing as well as a little fly fishing. But, since being so close to it, I did so little fishing of other forms, that I sold the boat I've had since 1973.
I guess I'm really hooked.
Now, to the local fly shop to get the exact match to what those goldens were feeding on. They seem to much prefer just the right fly, a creamy white little thing with kind of a thickish body. Perhaps a very small caddis ? They definately seem to prefer it fished dry, on the surface, not submerged either. E
It took a #18 Adams, which was small enough, but not quite the right color. I missed the first strike, another got off after the second, and I missed the third strike, but finally hooked up on the fourth hit. And landed a nice scrappy, 9 inch golden. My very first golden, and done with a dry fly no less.
I've done lots of rainbows, a brown or two, and a brookie on flies, now I have to get a cutthroat. Not very common in my country. Oh well, that's the fun and challenge of fly fishing.
I find it a bit odd that prior to my retiring, and moving near the mountains, I did lots of other fishing as well as a little fly fishing. But, since being so close to it, I did so little fishing of other forms, that I sold the boat I've had since 1973.
I guess I'm really hooked.
Now, to the local fly shop to get the exact match to what those goldens were feeding on. They seem to much prefer just the right fly, a creamy white little thing with kind of a thickish body. Perhaps a very small caddis ? They definately seem to prefer it fished dry, on the surface, not submerged either. E