Holdovers

[FIN-ITE 34]

Fished the upper of my favorite this morning and I am just amazed at how many holdover rainbows are still in the river.
Flows are low but the water temperatures are good, 64° @ 2pm just before I left for home. I arrived at about 8:15 but didn't start fishing until about 9 because I took a good hike upstream to water I had not previously fished. I picked up one rainbow on my dry and all the rest came on the dropper, the deadly quill nymph with orange hotspot in size 16.
I finished up with a dozen fish landed and a handful more of dropped fish. The fish are really starting to color up nicely as are some of the maple trees with leaves turning red.
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[creth]

Fished the upper of my favorite this morning and I am just amazed at how many holdover rainbows are still in the river.
Flows are low but the water temperatures are good, 64° @ 2pm just before I left for home. I arrived at about 8:15 but didn't start fishing until about 9 because I took a good hike upstream to water I had not previously fished. I picked up one rainbow on my dry and all the rest came on the dropper, the deadly quill nymph with orange hotspot in size 16.
I finished up with a dozen fish landed and a handful more of dropped fish. The fish are really starting to color up nicely as are some of the maple trees with leaves turning red.
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Nice fish!

 

[lightenup]

Where do you find all this time to fish.....you must be single with no kids or ones that have grown..........

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Where do you find all this time to fish.....you must be single with no kids or ones that have grown..........

Hey I'm an old man, in the fall of my own life and deserve to get out every now and again.
Actually I haven't been out trout fishing for a few weeks now because of work load. I was going to take off Friday to fish but talked myself out of that after thinking about what I had to get done at work. I'm here today making up for yesterday.

 

[Thursthouse]

Hey I'm an old man, in the fall of my own life and deserve to get out every now and again.
Actually I haven't been out trout fishing for a few weeks now because of work load. I was going to take off Friday to fish but talked myself out of that after thinking about what I had to get done at work. I'm here today making up for yesterday.

And clearly hard at work.. haha

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

And clearly hard at work.. haha

OK, you caught me. Just don't tell the boss.

 

[flymantis73]

I haven't been out since July, things are going to cooling off, soon i hope, can't wait to get back on the river this month.

 

[lightenup]

I haven't been out since July, things are going to cooling off, soon i hope, can't wait to get back on the river this month.

AHHHHHH...fuckin'...MEN!!!!