mka
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I received an email a couple weeks ago from JeepsterII suggesting a trip to the San Juan...it took two seconds for me to respond, YES. This week was beautiful up on the Juan and it seemed only the big piggies were hitting our flies. Every time I turned around to see what Steve was doing, well, he was pulling a big trout out of his net. We had much fun as we always do when fly fishing and I'm lucky to have Steve as a good friend.
The first day I hooked into a "big one" that looked different from the usual rainbows that I net in this river. The trout had a gold and orange slash under its jaw. I'm thinking it has some cutthroat DNA in it, but not sure??? Pic is below:
The "epic" catch on our trip was Steve's...I noticed he had a bent rod and as I looked closer, I saw two fish splashing at the end of his line. As he reeled them in, the 18 incher on the bottom fly tried to eat the smaller trout on the top fly. The big fish had the other trout half way into his mouth by the time Steve had them right at his net. It was an amazing thing to see and watching Steve's expressions (below photo) during that fight was priceless.
I'm already thinking about our next trip to the Juan...
The first day I hooked into a "big one" that looked different from the usual rainbows that I net in this river. The trout had a gold and orange slash under its jaw. I'm thinking it has some cutthroat DNA in it, but not sure??? Pic is below:
The "epic" catch on our trip was Steve's...I noticed he had a bent rod and as I looked closer, I saw two fish splashing at the end of his line. As he reeled them in, the 18 incher on the bottom fly tried to eat the smaller trout on the top fly. The big fish had the other trout half way into his mouth by the time Steve had them right at his net. It was an amazing thing to see and watching Steve's expressions (below photo) during that fight was priceless.
I'm already thinking about our next trip to the Juan...