Hooked a Double

My home river has finally dropped down and the fish are responding well
to dries in the pocket water. Generally this fishing starts by the
middle of July, but with all the unusual rain we've had this Summer,
flows have been high most of the Summer and the shallow pocket water
hasn't been shallow.

Picking pockets is very fun fishing, IMO. It's water that most anglers
pass by in favor of the deeper pools and holes. These stretches produce
lots of food and hold lots of fish. The fish are seldom fussy living in
such fast current and the fishing provides the angler with lots of targets.

I was covering quite a bit of water using a caddis dry with a dropper. I
was catching most of the fish on the dry and was thinking about taking
off the dropper. On a cast I hooked a Brown on the dry and during the
fight, it tried to dive under a rock. When I pressured the fish from
under the rock, a bigger Brown came out and chased the first fish in an
agitated manner. Then the bigger Brown took the dropper. The bigger
fish went one way, the smaller another, breaking off the dropper at the
bend of the dry's hook. I landed the smaller fish and the bigger one
took off my dropper. Pretty cool!

Willi

Willi writes....

neat story snipped.

Pretty cool!

Very cool.

Joel Axelrad
**DFD**

"Willi" wrote in message

amazing tale


I've often wondered what would happen in such a case and assumed that the
dropper fish would break himself off rather easily. Your's is the only
actual report of such a double hookup I've seen ... from a usually reliable
source

Pretty cool

Larry L wrote:
"Willi" wrote in message

amazing tale


I've often wondered what would happen in such a case and assumed that the
dropper fish would break himself off rather easily. Your's is the only
actual report of such a double hookup I've seen ... from a usually reliable
source

Pretty cool



That's the first I've ever had with a trout. The disturbed fish was
VERY agitated and it kept swimming around the other, sometimes lunging
at it. I would have though I snagged him, but at the time he took the
fly, the fish were only about four feet away in shallow water and I saw
him take the fly. The trout's behavior reminded me of some of the
Smallmouths I used to catch in Canada.

Willi

I got two solo doubles in a row at the Box Canyon one year. All four fish
were tiny though. One was the only Brook trout I've ever caught!

No breakoffs, more like "hoist em in the air and show RW :-)

bruce h

bruiser wrote:
I got two solo doubles in a row at the Box Canyon one year. All four fish
were tiny though. One was the only Brook trout I've ever caught!

No breakoffs, more like "hoist em in the air and show RW :-)

When you do a breakoff, it's usually in your rod. :-)

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"rw"

When you do a breakoff, it's usually in your rod. :-)


Well, I guess since I've broken my rod on every good fish that I've ever
caught, that's pretty accurate :-)

bruce h

"rw"

When you do a breakoff, it's usually in your rod. :-)


Well, I guess since I've broken my rod on every good fish that I've ever
caught, that's pretty accurate :-)

bruce h

bruiser wrote:
I got two solo doubles in a row at the Box Canyon one year. All four fish
were tiny though. One was the only Brook trout I've ever caught!

No breakoffs, more like "hoist em in the air and show RW :-)

When you do a breakoff, it's usually in your rod. :-)

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I got two solo doubles in a row at the Box Canyon one year. All four fish
were tiny though. One was the only Brook trout I've ever caught!

No breakoffs, more like "hoist em in the air and show RW :-)

bruce h