Big Country
11-08-2010, 04:17 PM
Went up Wednesday to fish the end of the season. Hit Owens below the monument for a couple of fish and it was warm that entire afternoon. Fished Convict in the evening, but no luck from the shore.
Thursday morning headed to headquarters at Interlaken and gave Gull and Silver a good go for a few stockers, but nothing worth taking a pic of. I had a nice one come up right at the foot of the concrete dock at Gull chasing my cd9 and it was real nice, but just like a chick at Havasu, it simply flashed me and went on its way.
Friday was an epic day on Rush. We were 8 guys deep and we all c&r'd at least 15 fish each. Typical baits from salmon eggs to lures all worked. Watched my bro get broke off twice at the diversion dam (ha ha ha) and I had one of those little salmon egg hooks straightened out on me by a nice 2 or 3 lber. Most were in the 15" range and provided us with a great time.
Saturday headed up to B-port. Nothing in the morning on Res, so we did a quick tour of upper and lower twin and Little Virginia for a little bit of stocker action at each location. On the south side of the bridge between upper and lower, we saw a huge hen all beat to hell from spawning but she was easily a 15+ lb fish. Biggest one I've seen there in a few years. We got back to the Res around 4 pm and started chucking the secret baits their way. I was rewarded with a nice 4 lbs brown give or take a couple of ozs. We gave it hell in the wind and occassional rain until about 6:30 and then called it a night.
Sunday morning we took off, but it looked like the region was gonna get a nice dusting of snow. I've got buddies camped at the Res all week and I'm sure they will do better, especially the next couple of days when the pressure is low. They had already gotten a 8 lber when they got there Friday afternoon, but it was a rainbow, not a brown.
Here's a few pics of me and my bro and I have a couple of more on another camera that I'll get around to downloading at some point.
Thursday morning headed to headquarters at Interlaken and gave Gull and Silver a good go for a few stockers, but nothing worth taking a pic of. I had a nice one come up right at the foot of the concrete dock at Gull chasing my cd9 and it was real nice, but just like a chick at Havasu, it simply flashed me and went on its way.
Friday was an epic day on Rush. We were 8 guys deep and we all c&r'd at least 15 fish each. Typical baits from salmon eggs to lures all worked. Watched my bro get broke off twice at the diversion dam (ha ha ha) and I had one of those little salmon egg hooks straightened out on me by a nice 2 or 3 lber. Most were in the 15" range and provided us with a great time.
Saturday headed up to B-port. Nothing in the morning on Res, so we did a quick tour of upper and lower twin and Little Virginia for a little bit of stocker action at each location. On the south side of the bridge between upper and lower, we saw a huge hen all beat to hell from spawning but she was easily a 15+ lb fish. Biggest one I've seen there in a few years. We got back to the Res around 4 pm and started chucking the secret baits their way. I was rewarded with a nice 4 lbs brown give or take a couple of ozs. We gave it hell in the wind and occassional rain until about 6:30 and then called it a night.
Sunday morning we took off, but it looked like the region was gonna get a nice dusting of snow. I've got buddies camped at the Res all week and I'm sure they will do better, especially the next couple of days when the pressure is low. They had already gotten a 8 lber when they got there Friday afternoon, but it was a rainbow, not a brown.
Here's a few pics of me and my bro and I have a couple of more on another camera that I'll get around to downloading at some point.