Siblings @ the FRC

I came to the FRC 5/23 with Rick & Kristi.  We fished from 5-9pm.  Winds were light. Mostly cloudy.  Somewhat chilly--the mountain passes had traction tire advisories this morning.

Kristi with a little one

Kristi discovered the little family secret--her brothers lose a lot of fish and miss strikes for even more.  She now knows what "farmers" are.  (I think she had wondered about all the agriculture talk she overhears from her brothers.  Now she know.)  Lots of little guys striking.  All of us caught fish (eventually).  Lots of surface activity--feeding on about size 28 midges.  Kristi's most difficult challenge of the evening was negotiating conflicting, comprehensive, and constant instructions from brothers on how to set hook, hold rod, angle line, reel, fight fish--you get the picture.  She was a very good sport about it!

The largest rainbow I've ever caught at the FRC

We fished floating, intermediate, and sink-tip lines and had action on all of them. We all also managed to break off at least one larger fish.  Black bugger, green bugger were what Rick & Kristi were most effective with.  Rick had a black bugger with some reflective chenille(sp?) that was very enticing as the light was fading.  At the end we had crazy hits on a fushia bugger.  Enough so that Rick even tied one of these uglies on.  I used prince nymph, chironomid, and size 20 spent midge.  I landed this 26" rainbow on the spent midge.

18" Tiger Trout

We also found a tiger.  Saw one osprey.  Saw otter briefly across the pond on the surface once.  Seeing lots of little fish eating on the surface let me know he hasn't decimated the population (yet).  Nice to fish with sibs and VERY grateful for the Father's Day gift of a few years ago of the electric trolling motor and battery!