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Post by lipripper1983 on Feb 7, 2019 10:53:57 GMT -6
Just wondering but i’ve not seen or caught any browns in almost a year. Are they all gone or are they in some sort of hibernation? Moved to a different part of the river maybe? Last spring and summer i was catching nothing but browns and few rainbows. Now its the opposite.
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Post by jonbo on Feb 7, 2019 11:58:08 GMT -6
You have to invest in a Brown Trout Caller. I believe Hankinsfly has then for sale on his website. Be careful, though. He may try to get you to join his cult.
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Post by coldwaterfly on Feb 7, 2019 12:21:10 GMT -6
Still a few around, but I'm not catching them like this time last year.
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Post by turfdawg on Feb 7, 2019 12:22:57 GMT -6
They are very easy to catch after a stocking of them then they do spread out and get harder to catch. I caught two pretty ones my last trip.
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Post by hankinsfly on Feb 7, 2019 13:28:27 GMT -6
Pretty sure Jonbo is a poacher disguised as a fly fisher. He keeps a rope stinger and Rapala filet knife in his vest, and he consumes his weight in trophy brown trout every week.
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Post by FlyAndStream on Feb 7, 2019 13:46:45 GMT -6
They're still there. Some of them moved up to lower spillway, some down into that rock pile run, some at the head of CH. One day I saw someone catch two out of that slack water back channel at the Bluffs turn.
Brown trout are smart, so once they became conditioned a few weeks after being stocked, they became a little more technical to catch. One day I sight fished to one for 30 minutes, 5 flies later I finally got him to eat. Dude was rooting around in the mud looking for snacks.
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Post by golferjeff on Feb 7, 2019 13:49:41 GMT -6
Browns are notoriously harder to catch, they adapt to *wild* status easier and quicker. I have been catching 1-2 every trip. They have found a home up spillway too. Still a few around, but they have hidey holes and generally stay away from where stocker rainbows hang out
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Post by jonbo on Feb 7, 2019 15:56:17 GMT -6
Mmmm, they good!
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Post by hankinsfly on Feb 7, 2019 17:04:40 GMT -6
They sho is. They ain’t as good as fried Rio Grande cutts though. Dem is real good.
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Post by breeden3 on Feb 7, 2019 19:47:31 GMT -6
Caught him January 28.  |
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Post by lipripper1983 on Feb 7, 2019 19:58:31 GMT -6
im ready  |
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Post by okieman71 on Feb 7, 2019 22:47:51 GMT -6
Patriot Anglers 1/15/19  |
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Post by lipripper1983 on Feb 7, 2019 23:11:28 GMT -6
Staaaaaaahp  |
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Post by FlyAndStream on Feb 8, 2019 12:02:25 GMT -6
Dang okieman71 that's a nice LMFR brown, right there 👌 |
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Post by okieman71 on Feb 8, 2019 15:34:38 GMT -6
Yes, FlyAndStream, I was just the net guy. My guy I took out for Patriot Anglers caught him and he is a very good angler and actually a guide in Arkansas. Was a blast for sure.
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