First Lunker Of The Year!!

Last Tuesday I took a trip up to me favorite honey hole in the mountains. Unlike the last trip I took up there, when we had a gale force wind blowing from the south,  this day the was sweet! Just a light wind from the west, enough to keep the bugs away and the fish hungry.

To my surprise though the fish was not that great, I had launched the boat by 6:15, but didn’t catch my first fish until 8:30.

For the next 4 hours I would set up and drift this area over and over again to no avail.

Just how it is some days, real bad fishing then its like someone turn a switch and the fishing is super hot.

With in the next 30 minuets I landed two fish, lost about three. First one that was in the boat was a nice fat cutbow that some how managed to swallow the spinner.  About 5 minuets after that one, I set up over a underwater point.

While reeling in my yellow mepps spinner, I got a sweet hit, set the hook and the fight was on! The lunker sprang out of the water about 3 feet trying to spit the hook with no luck. Just as I brought it in to the boat, the spinner popped free.

Here are some pictures from the lake of the monster.

Later I will show you  a step by step how to for filleting and making some of the best smoked fish ever.

10.5 Pounds 26 inches Rainbow Trout

I am not at the Ocean.