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TWiles

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Nasty Weather Troutin'
« on: December 05, 2010, 02:03:51 AM »
Stay at Home.  You do not want to be out in this stuff.  Freakin' miserable.  Rent a few movies, cook that frozen dinner, and lay on the couch.

Fished a good stretch of South Holston without much company of other anglers.  Rusty came along, and we found some nice fish that made our slippery/snowy hike -in well worth the effort.  Only busted my arse once!

Craig, Mike...sorry you guys couldn't be here.  Supposed to snow all day tomorrow.  I guess I'll have to head back tomorrow and float the boat to a different stetch.  Follow up report to come.












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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 08:23:28 AM »
nice trout.  crap weather.

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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 09:39:13 AM »
Nice----
That could have been a dicey ride home.

You still catching them on the stonefly/ midge pattern?


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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 10:23:09 AM »
I pretty much knew this was going to be the case. I should have just done it.
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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 10:31:35 AM »
Crappy weather for sure but some very nice trout.

More solid work Travis.
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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 12:43:44 PM »
Beautiful pics.
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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 11:50:40 PM »
Thanks guys.

Round Two:

Colder today.  Beautiful Snow, frozen guides, windburnt face and runny nose.  Floated the Crawdad in, and had some good luck hitting pocket water and longer/slow pools.  Fish were hugging the bottom, but once you found the herd....fishing was stellar.
#16 Gray softhackle hares ear(thin body/red wire), and subtle/thin/olive #20 midg pupae was the combo that produced the best.










(South Holston Rainbows are one of the prettiest strains I have ever caught.  these guys fight like crazy)

The browns were abundant in the deeper water. This clutch of fish is amazingly THICK in the entire river right now.  When this generation of browns gets over 20 inches...lookout.  Good promise for what's to come.

One



after another (probably one year yonger)



Left the pools with fish still biting.  The upstream return led us back to the truck at dark.

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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2010, 06:05:03 PM »
SSSAAAAAWWWWEEEEEEEETTTTT,
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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2010, 10:31:48 AM »
Thanks Travis.. You made Today alittle better

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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2010, 12:12:14 PM »
More great work Travis.
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Re: Nasty Weather Troutin'
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2010, 08:52:50 PM »
Awesome report. I agree. Anything colder than 75 degrees and slight overcast and I think everyone else should stay off the river. Those browns and rainbows just aren't worth having to put on some extra layers to stay warm. :)

I do hate the frozen guides though, even for me, that is often where I draw the line.

Good fishing,
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