One fly above the clouds

[Artin]

My friend and I met up with Milt Spawn 8 am Sun. morning at a location above the clouds and we got to it... It was cold... very cold in the am so we were bundled up pretty good. I had never fished this particular water but I had in the area within a couple of miles of it.
On the drive up I just had to stop and take in the beauty of the scenery. Man it is so weird to be higher than the clouds.


So we launched and got to it. Milt picked off a bass early on and us pretty much trolled and stripped around a bi with no luck.
There was a couple of creeks feeding in so Daren and I decided to head on to the other side of where we were and fish the inlet. And lo and behold I give you....



It was on.... fish after fish... size and quality, fish were well fed and unbelevably strong.



Here is Daren with one on, nice bendooo!


So, do you think this fish was a bit picture shy? Nice tail though...


Yet another quality fish bygood ol Daren,


Man, these fish were in their prime. Beautful fins and spotting, some were very spunky and put up an even more exceptional fight. All in all I was surprised at this spot Ihad overlooked for so long! No more!

Cool thing was that I never changed my fly, 8 hours of straight slaying and the fly falling apart. Now it has retired in my fly hall of fame located in my car on the sun visor.....

What a good day,

Thanks Milt, we had an awesome time hanging with you and fishing. We will do it again soon....


On another note, remember all those comments I made about me never seeing a DFG Warden, well yesterday I saw 2.... on different locations. We spoke to the second one for a while. Very cool guy. Good news is that they make regular trecks now into that one C&R section looking for poachers and bait dunkers... !!!


We may still be in good shape. After talking to him for that long, I have new respect for them. They WORK for every ticket they give. And let me tll you what, they LOVE what they do and that is respectible.


Artin

[johnnhoj]

Looking real good.

[lucfish]

Looks good, nice fish. Thanks for posting.

[WanderingBlues]

I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't an April Fools post... Stellar fish! Really some epic looking color and size.

[stanbery]

Very nice outing you guys had and thanks for the pictures.

Jon

[Artin]

I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't an April Fools post... Stellar fish! Really some epic looking color and size.

Well, it was on Sun, so we decided that fooling a trout was in order. I was actually very surprised to see the colors on these big boys and girls. I caught a few that were ridiculously colored. Daren caught one that had the look of a cutt. but after double checking with Milt that there are no cutts in there, we rechecked the picture one more time on his camera and decided that we really need to make the trek to Stanbery's private lake....
These guys were well fed and tough I tell ya!

Artin

[dray]

Artin, way to go, outstanding report, those are some beauty's.

[Milt Spawn]

Great to spend the day with two guys who appreciate the resource, and we must have talked to that DFG warden for nearly an hour, really nice guy too. Capped the day off with a Bald Eagle sighting just before dark. milt.

[Fishfreak911]

Freakin awesome report boys. Love all the pics, esp. the clouds and that healthily FAT bow. Waht a day!

[Artin]

Great to spend the day with two guys who appreciate the resource, and we must have talked to that DFG warden for nearly an hour, really nice guy too. Capped the day off with a Bald Eagle sighting just before dark. milt.

That guy was cool. I was pretty stoked to see 2 DFG Wardens that day. The other guy Rick (Both were Rick's) Told me that he patrols down in the creek often and that was sure good enough for me. Great conversation with the 2nd Rick. You got to see a Baldie huh? That's awesome. We will do it again sometime Milt!

Greg,
Those fish were HEALTHY, I landed one and easily it was over 20"... FAT fish too. I did a quick SDR (short distance release) as Daren was getting ready to take a picture. Oh well, at least it came to hand and I saw the potential of that spot first hand.

Artin

[Reyne]

Great TR, Artin. Yes, that is a great stillwater fishery for chunky 'bows. I'm also glad that DFG has a presence there still. Unfotunately, there's not enough of them. Thanks.

[briansII]

Very, very nice report. Looks a little chilly, but I bet those fish made you forget all about that.

briansII