Fished 10:30-1:00 today with Dad. I used intermediate line; he used sink tip. Overcast conditions. Wind picked up after 12:00. Caught fish consistently. Dad said it was his best trip ever to the FRC. Fish were from several age classes--most were the brand new plants which kept action going, half a dozen of the intermediate plants (see rainbow photo) ranging 14-17".
At first, I was catching and Dad would get a hard hit, bring his line in and have his flies broken off. He was using the sink tip so was deeper and the fish must have been bigger. I think it was frustrating as he would be tying on a new bugger and I'd land another fish. He made up for it toward the end of the day besting me by about a 2:1 ratio down the stretch.
I caught two tigers--one 17" between boat launch and feeding raft, the other at the opposite corner that went 18". They should be getting large enough to start slurping bluegill and size up considerably more.
Dad got the fish of the day in the corner diagonal to the boat launch--a 21" brown. Tried to get a photo, but keeping the net over the water, the lively fellow went leaping as soon as Dad touched him and out of the net and into the drink and away he went. Probably shouldn't have tried to one-hand it. (A better son would have helped to make sure he got the fish in hand to get the photo instead of just holding the net and camera and watching the entertainment.) My rubber mesh net has measurement scaling on the bottom so I gauged size when I was removing the hook.
Dad caught most of his on a green woolly bugger with a cone head; most of mine were on a small chronomid, but I caught 4 on the black woolly bugger with an orange egg head. Saw a pair of osprey but no predatory mammals. A great day at the FRC!
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Nice! Maybe we should go there Memorial Day instead of singing...
You'll have to run that one past Mom. We used to fish at Westport every Memorial Day so it would kind of be returning to the roots of our family traditions, no?
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