Rainbows, Tigers, & Browns

Fished 10:30-1:00 today with my dad.  I used intermediate line; he used sink tip.  Overcast conditions.  Wind picked up after 12:00.  Caught fish consistently.  Dad said it was his best trip ever to the FRC.  Fish were from several age classes--most were the brand new plants which kept action going, half a dozen of the intermediate plants (see rainbow photo) ranging 14-17".

I caught two tigers--one 17" between boat launch and feeding raft, the other at the opposite corner that went 18".  They should be getting large enough to start slurping bluegill and size up considerably more.

Dad got the fish of the day in the corner diagonal to the boat launch--a 21" brown.  Tried to get a photo, but keeping the net over the water, the lively fellow went leaping as soon as Dad touched him and out of the net and into the drink and away he went.  My rubber mesh net has measurement scaling on the bottom so I gauged size when I was removing the hook.

Dad caught most of his on a green woolly bugger with a cone head; most of mine were on a small chronomid, but I caught 4 on the black woolly bugger with an orange egg head.  Saw a pair of osprey but no predatory mammals. A great day at the FRC!