Flyfishing the Owens for Thanksgiving

[britheguy]

Sorry guys! This was too late. But i hope you all like it! Fly fishing is the best!

Ok, here we go! http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p20/good1235/PB200426.jpg 1st day ready to go!

Its cold in the morning! But im on my first fish fasttt :banana:
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All the Pics Of the 1st day! *sorry for my dads camera work!*
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MY FIRST BROWN OF THE TRIP :P
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Moved to another stretch of the river and look at this weird fish i caught! It fought like it was a big brown!

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That Concludes the first day!

My cousin arrives that night and we get to fishing the next morning!

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Relese
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The BEAUTIFUL COLORS!
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Little Brown
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Amazing very very long trout!
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FISH ON!
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Supa stippah
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Another Release
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Near the end of the day i threw a Parachute Adam's and caught a nice 3lbs brown! No picture tho because he flopped right as i was going to take it!!!

End of day 2

DAY 3, now with out Mark, Greg and i set off, we meet mark at the water say hi to him and his clients and set of all alone!

Greg Throwing a Roll!
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Gregs BEAST i'd say about 3-4 or maybe bigger. [cant tell from pic, its hard to take them when your hands are freezing!]
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I Decided to throw dry fly's after i caught about 5 on nymphs, for you know, high octane fun!
Caught about 3 on the Dry, until i was looking away and i saw a splash and this beast was on my line!
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Caught him on a Royal Wulf! We noticed fish going after our strike indicators the day earlier so I put a big obnoxious attractor pattern on and it worked!

Overall i had a wonderful time, i love it up there! I had a great time learning technique's from Mark. I especially loved the 25+ fish days! I now love Flyfishing more than ever!

BTG

[tpfishnfool]

Good Stuff.. Hope you killed that sucker!!

[britheguy]

What kind of fish is it? Damn maybe i should have killed it, Mark and i didn't know what it was so we just put it back, it could have been an endangered species, we didn't know, next time ill blow it up. Hahaha

[tpfishnfool]

Yea, The owens is loaded with em. We always just throw em in the weeds.. Tee Hee :banana:

[britheguy]

Maybe bad for the brownies that live there, next time i'm gonna do something bad to one :secret:

[City Dad]

Great post. I am green with envy!

Is it just me, or does britheguy seem to have the hands of a fifty-year-old man in some of the pictures?

Also, britheguy, suckers are a part of what is sometimes called an "eco-system" and have been since the dawn of time. If they were any danger to trout there wouldn't be any trout around anymore (and if you examined the mouth of a sucker you would discover the main reason for this.) Also, as you may remember from grade school, an "eco-system" is comprised of inter-dependant organisms - erradicate one type of organism and what happens?

[britheguy]

Yeah City Dad i didn't know if they were native or not thats the thing, i didn't kill any though! Hahah and those were Marks hands, lol, thats what happens when your hands are in 30 degree water with 20 degree air for a long time. Hahha thanks for the school lesson i learned a lot!

[Trout-Slayer77]

nice pics and nice fish.... :banana:

[Fisher-of-Men]

Great post. I am green with envy!

Is it just me, or does britheguy seem to have the hands of a fifty-year-old man in some of the pictures?

Also, britheguy, suckers are a part of what is sometimes called an "ecosystem" and have been since the dawn of time. If they were any danger to trout there wouldn't be any trout around anymore (and if you examined the mouth of a sucker you would discover the main reason for this.) Also, as you may remember from grade school, an "ecosystem" is comprised of inter-dependant organisms - eradicated one type of organism and what happens?

Excellent point City Dad! :wink:

Fisher-of-Men

[Fisher-of-Men]

Thanks for the report Bri! :thumb: I'm glad you were able to get away and spend some quality time doing what you really enjoy. Nice job on the Sacramento sucker you caught! :lol: They do put up a good fight don't they?! My daughter just recently caught one and it gave her quite a thrill with the reel going ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ and all!

Fisher-of-Men

[britheguy]

Hey thanks Fisher-of-men! Wow so it is native, who would have known, :| , haha thanks!

[one_leg]

Great report Brian.

One_Leg

[fisherkid47]

Thanks for the report, those are some nice fish!!

fisherkid

[TroutOnly]

LOVE THE PICS LOTS OF ACTION,,,,t/o

[WAVEMHOME]

Nice report. I love the under water video. Next time can you swim after them to show us where they hide??? :lol:

[boxl0bster]

great report! too bad you didnt dispatch that sucker... i was on a guided drift boat trip on the lower sac and we hooked into one and the guide immediately slit its throat and tossed it back in. :twisted: