Author Topic: Fly fishing at 12k (Read 650 times)

Kratzer · « **Reply #15 on:** August 09, 2002, 07:45:28 PM »

Well... I can see ONE 14'r from my house...

Udie · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2002, 06:19:25 PM »

Just got back from the coast. I caught 2 hard head catfish and 7 speckled trout. The first trout I have ever caught

4 of them were about 14" - 14.5" so they had to go back in, the limit is 15". But 2 were 17" and the 3rd was a 20" whopper that may win me $50 for 2nd biggest trout. But it was a SLOW day

those fish were all boated by 10 am, then nothing until we got off the water at 1:30. I caught the most on the boat I was on for the 2nd year in a row though

That 20" trout hit my croaker about 50ft from the boat within 2 seconds of my bait hitting the water. It really didn't feel like a big fish. That was until it saw where it was headed, the boat

Then it was on! That sucker started taking out drag like it was nothing at all. It was the 2nd fish all year that I've had pull out drag. He did NOT want to get in the boat. Everytime I got him near it he would start fighting again! And yes the drag was set right! I had it pretty tight because I was hoping for a nice 30"+ red drum.

Is there a freshwater speckled trout? and do all these other types of trout (freshwater) fight like thier saltwater cousins? I always thought trout were like 8" or 9". I knew that saltwater trout get big, but didn't know that freshwater ones get to 9 lbs!

Hmm this could be as addicting as bass fishing.

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but it did not help heal the pain from losing that lunker last saturday

midnight Target · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2002, 06:25:56 PM »

Trout and Salmon are closely related Udie.

Steelhead have been refered to as both.

Udie · « **Reply #18 on:** August 10, 2002, 06:35:26 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Trout and Salmon are closely related Udie.

Steelhead have been refered to as both.

didn't know that

I just noticed in the pick at the top of this thread that you lipped that trout with your hands. Man you wouldn't want to do that with these that we caught today! 1 top tooth that measures aprox. 1.25 cm and about 10 lower teath that measure about 3-5mm.

Kratzer · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2002, 07:41:05 PM »

What did you catch it with Wlfgng?

Can't believe you told fish story without any So-there-I-was's and without mentioning the fly!

Wlfgng · « **Reply #20 on:** August 10, 2002, 08:12:08 PM »

It was a brown drake. Saw one on my leg while I was tying up

As for grabbing that guy's lip, I still have four puncture wounds. They were not the 1.2 cm sized teeth.. still, sharp as hell and a big mouth for his body. His whole head was bigger in relationship to his body than the ones caught at lower alts. he's a wild one.

Udie that is sweet. They definately have an overbite problem !
Oh yeah.. troutski's can get big. I caught a 30"+ model earlier this year by my house.. luckily I had a witness

and I've caught bigger on the "Miracle Mile".. river between two reservoirs.. that bad boy was 36".. fat as can be. You have to time them migrating between lakes

have a pic somewhere...

Here's to hoping you get addicted to trout fishing !!! (hic)

Manedew · « **Reply #21 on:** August 10, 2002, 10:19:47 PM »

awesome .. wish you could eat more than a fish a month here

Independance pass rocks .. drove it after 5 day hike out of Marble CO

one lane sometimes hehe

Lance · « **Reply #22 on:** August 10, 2002, 10:33:30 PM »

Nice brookie, Wlfgang. You are making me miss the mountains.

Apar · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2002, 03:01:07 PM »

WTG Wlfgng, very nice.

I just started trout fishing (with fly-rod) last year, I love it.

Boroda · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2002, 04:48:53 PM »

Beautifull pictures!

Is it really 12,000ft = 3600m?! Do you have places to go fishing that high in Colorado!?

The grass and flowers look like 2000-3000m in Central Caucasus, but the mountains don't look like above 3000... On Kola noodlesula we have something like that, but it's no more them 500m above the sea level. But OTOH it's above Arctic Circle

I am not a big fan of fishing, but I really want to go hiking there

I envy you. The nearest mountains from Moscow are at least 1500km away... So far I went hiking from Carpathians it the West to lake Baikal in the East, and from Kola noodlesula in the North to Crimea in the South

Boroda · « **Reply #25 on:** August 11, 2002, 05:11:22 PM »

Oh god!

Watched that webcam images... Beautiful! The closest thing that I have seen myself were the mountains outside Kislovodsk in early November... It's Western Caucasus, where you ride across the Cossak steppe and finaly reach the mountains...

3000+ peaks look different everywhere. But the mountais are always beautiful

Wlfgng · « **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2002, 09:42:18 PM »

yes. I was standing at 12,100' when I took the picture at the lake. A few of the peaks in the picture are above 14,000'.

There's also another lake, higher up. It's located at approximately 13,200'.