Agony and Ecstacy

[reelman]

Went fishing in the rain today on a private, flyfishing only lake. Cold, wet, miserable and cold. I still can't feel my fingers while I'm typing this. Broke my personal best for largest (non-carp) fish several times over.
Fished the first five hours and only caught one when I thought I'd try something ridiculous and tied on a size four deer hair mouse. Instant action. Previous best was 17.5" this one would have been over 20", but it pulled the knot and kept my fly. My hands were so numb from cold that I must have tied a weak knot. I did land one 17", two 18" and three 19" rainbows and a 17" brown. Including the monster, there were four that I didn't boat. and three missed strikes.
Here's the funny part- I landed all but the brown on a size 4 muddler minnow, slathered in floatant like a dry fly and fished like a bass popper; who says I'm not well rounded? They would leave a wake ("Jaws" theme music playing in background) chasing my muddler minnow.

[Toni]

Good report. Would have been a cool video with the jaws music playing.

[knotabassturd]

reelman- maybe the trout thought it was a traveling sedge. Not sure though if they hatch on whatever water you were on.

A strong traveling sedge hatch is something to slobber over when dryfly fishing. Just throw some big, bulky dryfly and drag it across the surface. Trout go crazy when the hatch is really going. Not sure though if that was what the fish were keyed into.

[Bodofish]

Big trout love minnows of all types. I'm sure they'd hit them under the water but on the surface, they're easy to see. They always look up!