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Limited out last night with the help of a small tiger trout. Two good takes on a spoon, had to switch to bait to get that last bite.

Got on some rainbows, could have limited out, but I guess I made the mistake of leaving fish to find maybe bigger fish. So made off with two, couldn't get a third.

Minnow bait fished erratically has a good way of triggering trout when they are not aggressive towards spoons and spinners.

I use a very firm grip with pliers, then twist the tag end with fingers. Those stock spinner wires come with one end already twisted.

Brown trout

You need to suffer to catch fish. This may mean; you need to fail, again and again, to figure out a new lake or a new specie. Or, as we come into the cold weather seasons, it may mean quite literally suffering, fishing the cold wind driven rain of November, for a fish few others would ever encounter.

These are supposed to be smelt:

How did anybody ever run a boat before sonar?

There gonna start hittin; and runnin. I think every fairly deep pond, that is trout stocked year after year, could hold big holdovers. Those are cool but I am big into spoons for the ponds. Casting distance is critical for fishing a deep pond from shore. When I saw the cold water savagery of big browns at Walden early this year, it changed me.

A couple rainbows were runnin:

Stream yellow perch and some lake toothies in my bud's vessel

The small mountain resort town, even over my lifetime, has become an international tourist destination, with traffic, drive through dunkins, and shopping centers. It was hard to see, hard to feel, the mountains. The whitefish, at least for me, has changed the vibe, the mountains have a presence, and a mystery again.

I ate the things. I call the dish fried mountain whitefish. Flaky white meat but with plenty of bones.

I've gotten into some fallfish in the mountain trout stream

Its photographed/filmed next to an official IGFA tape and then released. Yeah it might be smaller Its a different record. I read an article about this catch. Guy was planning for it.

My understanding the length record is a catch and release record. Was set just the other day out West.

Its an entitled elitist sport. Where I fish they are sure they own the river.

Its fishing for a herbivorous particle feeder. Its much different than fishing for a fish that chases other fish, this is part of the challenge I alluded to. I reckon once you hear that bait clicker start screaming out, and hook into a powerful run out to midriver...you would suddenly be very interested.

There is a specie, that when sought there is no glamour or myth surrounding it..let alone respect..but in my mind there is no other pursuit that entails the challenges and rewards of fishing the common carp.

Ok, if you have to wade as in if you go on land you will get shot, I would consider that unsafe wading. Sometimes I find I must get back on land, just for mental clarity and to reassess the situation.

You don't have to be in the water all the time. If it's loose muck, just go rat around on land. Any bridge with pillars is going to disrupt the current and pile silt somewhere where slack is created.

You would learn very quickly there is a big difference between fishing from a canoe with paddles, and fishing from a navy destroyer. Its not just the experience, being in tune with the weather and the season, but rather how fish react to certain presentations. Without sonar and props, there are lures that attract, very strongly and from great distances. As soon as you drop troll and turn on the sonar, that fish has already sensed a disturbance. Hence why most ffs tactics are very small, subtle and finessy.

Lol. You guys must mean 'striper'.

Must be the musky bug. Adrenaline and a bit of psychosis.

That's because the fish can feel the sonar. Raises their guard fin just a bit and they get cautious. Same fish probably could have been triggered by an aggressive presentation with no sonar or props in the water.