Went up to North Catamount for the first time yesterday, and I LOVE THAT PLACE!!! Within 5 minutes I had my first of 7 Lakers. I walked from the dam towards the power lines and back, I did'nt stay in one place to long, just kept sticking and moving. I also caught 2 rainbow's and lost a nice hookjaw at the shore. I had something on that was ripping drag and headshaking like crazy but spit the hook. I was using big tubes trying for some big fish, this is my new laker spot, it is only 45min from the house. Here are a few pic's.
I went to Sportsmans Warehouse today and re-plenished my tubes and jig heads and am ready to go!!! I will be heading up there Friday after taking my son to school. I got some medium sized tubes this time, so the smaller ones who were just nipping at my big tubes can get caught too. If anyone is heading up there, I will be the guy getting tubalicious on the Lakers!!!!
I was up there this week too!!! The tube jigs ARE HOT!! I got those glow in the dark freshwater basic jigs... They really liked those. I put them on an orange jig head and the orange kind of showed through it... I must have caught 10 or 12 of the lakers, but I really liked the fly rod! Ended up with another 10 rainbows, 2 cutts and 2 more lakers on a PT....
The Lakers I caught were between 16" - 18" and I lost something pretty big. I was just using the straight tube, I don't think you can use anything on them up there. You don't need to tip them, those lakers are hungry!!!
I heard about the Arctic Grayling late last fall and I've been itching to target them...I went up with my buddy Remy and GF and had some GREAT SUCCESS!! Threw a wide variety of stuff with no action (for the graylings at least), we landed a big brown, some Brookies, some Colorado River Cutthroat...
Always wanted to figure the crappie and once I actually set out to do it I found hundreds! Limited out for the first time after trying for the whole month of June. Wasn't too hard once i honed in on the area where I located them. Fast forward 4 days later and today they were gone. Here is my...
The hot summer days and water levels going lower by the day and the crappies moving around after post spawn definitely made for a challenge finding them but persistence pays off!
Recently was up DEEP in the mountains fishing with my buddy...We came across a huge group of Colorado River Cutthroat Trout. We of course fished for them but we wanted to see if we could film them too. Luckily they were crowding around a small current provided by a little spring, flowing into...
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