Two years ago Scott LaRochelle and I were fishing an upper stretch of one of my favorite streams. We had fished a long ways and I was sucking wind and dragging my left knee. My vehicle was 40 yards ahead so I kept going. Scott was ahead of me and he stopped in his tracks 10 yards ahead of me and yelled at me to hold still. Scott dropped to the prone position and started casting. He was using a fly rod and changed the fly numerous times. I noticed he threw mostly big stuff so the target had to be large.
He did this for a long time before he stopped and spoke to me. He was really nervous and I had a hard time understanding him at first. I translated this from what he was saying. He said: “There is a monster brown 15 yards ahead of me in that shallow pool in the middle. Why don’t you throw your spinner in there and try to get it.”
My first cast spooked the trout and it ran around in the hole for a while and went tight to the bank. Scott told me it had to be 25 inches and it was a male.
I smiled when he told me about it being so big. This was head water and a large brown would be out of place this far up. I went to the bank where it disappeared and stuck the end of my pole under the back and out it shot. It was at least 25 inches. I was flabbergasted. Fishidy Credit – Provided by Len Harris of lenharris.blogspot.com. Be sure to connect with Len on Fishidy as well!
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