Decided to hit the water today to see if there was any hungery fish. This has been the first day the river here hasn't been frozen over and I was ready to do some fishing. I armed myself with my TFO 8 foot 2wt. and I hit the water. Fishing was slow at first but I managed a couple of small rainbows. I caught around 9 rainbow in the 8 to 12 inch range in an hour. Then the fish just stopped baiting so I moved to another run just below where I had been catching those rainbows. I made a couple of casts and nothing. I was getting cold and my feet was starting to hurt alittle from the cold water. I thought to myself " cast a couple more time just to see if the is a fish holdind there ." I made another cast and bam fish on. This fish wasn't fighting like the little rainbows. This fish was staying on the bottom and I knew it was a brown, and what a brown. This fish was heavy and pulling line. I tightened up the drag on my reel. Man what a fight on my 2wt. I fought this fish for about ten mins. before i got it in the net. I use a mesure net and as I looked in the net I saw a male brown trout with a nice hook jaw that mesured 20 inches. Man what a day, a 20 inch male brown on a 2wt fly rod.
I want a picture of this fish but I didn't have my camera. I had my cell phone so I called my dad to bring me a camera. He show up and we had a little photo shoot with this big brown. After the photo shoot I release the fish and he swam right back to where i hooked him.
I hope this is a sign that 2011 is going to be a good year fishing.
Great Fish on the 2wt, Ill bet you were sweatin it just a little.
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