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Old August 5th, 2008, 03:47 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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" took an enormous (31+ inches) rainbow on a mouse pattern "

wow...nice......




On Jul 29, 12:22*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:14:17 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Jul 28, 3:26*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
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*Plus, a fish are eating machines - they'll strike if their
belly is full or empty.


I'll never forget fishing one of Michigan's upper peninsula streams
(each and every one a jewel!) and taking brookie after brookie on a
horsefly imitation. *Almost every one of those brookies was so full
when I brought them to hand that they had bugs all the way up their
throats and into their mouths! *But still they'd take my fly with
reckless abandon.


Dreaming of birch, loons, and the howl of timber wolves,
B


On the last day of my Kamchatka trip, one of my party took an enormous
(31+ inches) rainbow on a mouse pattern. *The fish never recovered
even though the guides and the sport tried for over 30 minutes. *They
finally killed the fish and when they cleaned it, its stomach was full
of lemmings (mice). *Big and fat it was. *And delicious for breakfast
the last day.

Dave