I headed out to the Shenandoah Valley yesterday morning to meet up with my buddy Mike to do a little trout fishing, and we had tons of action on a warm January day. We caught all of the fish on small panther martin spinners - I was using my ultra-light rod and it was a ton of fun. There were tons of people fishing the deep holes on this creek - so we hoofed it up stream to fish any structure we found in the more shallow runs and little holes here and there. Within my first 15 casts I hooked in to a fish (which is so much more fun because they are only 10 or 15 feet away, and sometimes almost at your feet) but lost it before I got it to the net. Two casts later, I had my first Brown Trout ever in the net - good fight!
As you can see by the cooler of Browns and Rainbows, we had a great morning (we fished from about 8am until 11:30am) as I said earlier. There were a ton of trout - I was getting hook ups back to back sometimes (but I lost 7 or 8 fish), and I went for no more than 10-15 minutes between hits. Drift-fishing for floundercan be tricky, but I have learned that trout can be just as hard or harder to get from strike into the net. It was great because I could see every hit and the trout just seemed to materialize from nowhere - an extremely fun way to fish. I can't wait to do some more of this kind of fishing.
We headed back to Mikes place and decided to smoke some of the trout for lunch - that's Dakota in the lower left hand corner - waiting for me to give her a trout - no dice girl.
This is Mike homemade smoker - it works well!
Mike stoking the smoker - Oh man were those trout good!
I headed out to the Shenandoah Valley yesterday morning to meet up with my buddy Mike to do a little trout fishing, and we had tons of action on a warm January day. We caught all of the fish on small panther martin spinners - I was using my ultra-light rod and it was a ton of fun. There were tons of people fishing the deep holes on this creek - so we hoofed it up stream to fish any structure we found in the more shallow runs and little holes here and there. Within my first 15 casts I hooked in to a fish (which is so much more fun because they are only 10 or 15 feet away, and sometimes almost at your feet) but lost it before I got it to the net. Two casts later, I had my first Brown Trout ever in the net - good fight!
As you can see by the cooler of Browns and Rainbows, we had a great morning (we fished from about 8am until 11:30am) as I said earlier. There were a ton of trout - I was getting hook ups back to back sometimes (but I lost 7 or 8 fish), and I went for no more than 10-15 minutes between hits. Drift-fishing for floundercan be tricky, but I have learned that trout can be just as hard or harder to get from strike into the net. It was great because I could see every hit and the trout just seemed to materialize from nowhere - an extremely fun way to fish. I can't wait to do some more of this kind of fishing.
We headed back to Mikes place and decided to smoke some of the trout for lunch - that's Dakota in the lower left hand corner - waiting for me to give her a trout - no dice girl.
This is Mike homemade smoker - it works well!
Mike stoking the smoker - Oh man were those trout good!
