I ran down for two hours before my scheduled meetings with some recruiters looking to get my Stocker Steelhead and maybe a trophy Lightning Trout.
I decided to just throw the spoon that got hit yesterday a few times, but I modified it. I added an extra split ring to extend the hook back another 1/4" for those small tail biters. I saw a bunch of trout this morning on my walk, but nothing really wanted it. I had two Lightning Trout swimming back and forth and I casted a bunch of times to them. One was a pretty big female, and the other was a smaller hook jaw male. Finally, I got the bigger one to take it and it took off like a bullet! I had the drag pretty tight to begin with and after a 3- or 4-minute tussle, it popped off. Ugh.... one of the hooks were at a 90-degree angle so I fixed it with the pliers. I know this hook isn't going to hold up at this point to any real ones.
I was planning on checking out multiple lakes, but I couldn't leave this area with all of the trout around.
I kept casting in front of the smaller male lightning and finally hooked him! Well, with a single run, the hooked popped out. How infuriating...
I continued to cast to trout swimming by with no luck and then noticed a loose wrap on my spool. I gave it a long cast to try and get the line tight on my reel when I thought I hooked into weeds... until it started running! Holy hell, I'll take it!
It was a good fight, and I reeled up a fairly decent Hybrid Steelie!
(https://i.imgur.com/iDLtieN.jpeg)
More people started showing up and my time was coming to a close. I kept walking around the lake and came across 4 trout that wanted nothing to do with me. I would have kept trying, but my time was up and I needed to get back to talk to the recruiters.
After a good talk with the recruiters, I realized he failed to mention where these jobs were located.... Needless to say, I'm not commuting to LA. lol
Well, back to the drawing boards!
You will catch all that was planted in no time at all ;D