Boo' s Big Fish

Yesterday I took my girlfriend Katherine fishing. It was her first time to fly fish. We did some casting lessons and got the rod rigged. It only took her a few minutes to get into her groove. She had several fish on that we didn't quite get to the boat. Once she was able to get one rainbow to the boat she started catching them left and right! On our last drift, she hooked into this nice brown and thought it was the bottom of the river. Once we saw the fish we both started freaking out! It was about a 23 inch brown! We had a great morning just goofing around and it ended up awesome!

Jason and Norm

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Yesterday I fished with Norm and Jason. Norm fishes with me pretty often but I hadn't seen Jason in a while. They had one goal and that was to catch a nice fish. It was cold, foggy morning when we set out. We started to nymph and found the bite immediately. After a while Norm decided he wanted to throw some streamers and he quickly got into some fat browns. Jason stuck with nymphing and brought in a nice 22 inch brown. Fishing remained excellent all day. Toward the end of the day, Jason hooked this fat 18 rainbow which really got me going! It's always nice to see big bows in the river. It was an all around awesome Fall day on the Little Red River!

Farnsworth Family

Last week I had the pleasure of taking out a great client of mine, Robert Farnsworth and his family. We did a neat round robin type of deal and took out all three kids and his wife Monica. I fished each child for a couple of hours. I started out with his son Devaul. He was a natural. He caught on so fast and was yanking fish out one after another. It was his first time fishing for trout with a fly rod and you would have never guessed it! Next I took his daughter Ansley. The water rose on us and our bite slowed down a bit, but she got in her groove and caught several nice Rainbows. After lunch I took out his wife Monica and their son Miles. Monica did awesome too! The water dropped back out and she smashed on the fish. Robert was throwing some streamers and hooked a 21 inch pig and let Miles bring him in! It was a awesome day getting to help Robert share something he is so passionate about with his family. It reminded me of being a kid and my dad teaching me how to fish. It was such a rewarding day. I do not have all of the pictures yet but be looking for them soon.

Charles and Alan

Yesterday I took Charles and Alan fishing. They wanted to catch some big fish on streamers. The clouds where up high so the conditions seemed perfect. It took the guys a few drifts to get dialed in to the full sinking lines, but soon we were pounding the banks hard. We had some good tugs and great follows but we were having a hard time getting big fish to commit. Finally Charles pulled out a hog! A big beautiful buck with a dark orange pumpkin belly. We continued to pick up some smaller, but nice fish in the 16 inch range up until after lunch. Afterward Alan got into a few nice toads. They fished hard and were doing it right. The big browns just didn't seem to be too keen on streamers yesterday, so we picked up the nymph rods and banged out quite a few rainbows.

Over a Hundred Fish in High water!

Yesterday I took out Greg and Moody. I haven't fished Moody since last spring, but Greg fishes with me all the time. They wanted to catch a hundred fish. We had about a unit of generation. The sun was high and the fish were HOT! At first they had a little competition going on, but after a while it turned into a team effort. They where smoking the fish. It was out of control. By 2:12pm they had reached the goal of 100 fish. We decided then it was time to bust out the streamer rods and catch some hogs. Doc was on fire! He was catching a 18" plus fish every drift. It took Moody just a few minutes longer to get in the groove, but he ended up catching a few nice ones as well. The total tally for the day was 115 fish! We had several fish over 20 inches. It was dynamite. What a fun day it was and a great way to break in a new boat!

Jacob and Steve

Jacob and Steve fished with me today. The last time we fished together, Jacob fished streamers really hard all day for trout-Zilla. The river was High and Muddy but he was rewarded strongly. Today we started out chucking streamers. We had lots of follows, but no takers for the first 30 minutes. Once we got cranking, Jacob was catching fish left and right! About 11:00 we started nymphing and Steve joined in. The fish were on fire! They couldn't get enough. Steve caught two very nice pigs and Jacob continued to put the smack down as well. We had a great conditions with a little bit of water and cloudy skies. It was another great day of fall fishing on the Little Red River

Team Trek

Today I took three guys from Team Trek. Ritch, Garry, and Nick. Cool guys. Today was also the maiden voyage of my new TopWater Boat. The guys broke it it well. We caught several nice browns in the 15 inch range and who knows how many rainbows! All of the rainbows we have been catching lately have been gorging on brown trout eggs and are healthy as Oxes. Nick also caught a nice brown that was about 18 inches and Ritch caught this beast that was 25! He said it was the biggest brown trout he had ever caught! The weather was nice. The water was a little high but the fishing sure was great!

It doesnt get any better than this.....

Today was the last day to fish with Will and Terry. We decided to start a little earlier since Will had to catch a flight. Our first 5 drifts the guys had doubles with Browns on. It was Epic. All days on the river are good days, but today was outstanding. We probably caught brown trout to rainbows 5 to 1 all morning. It was just BAM BAM BAM! The guys caught several really nice fish in the 20inch plus range and tons in the 16-18 inch range. Today was what fall trout fishing on the Little Red River is all about! I would also like to add in the fact that we fished in two units of water most of the day! The high water rigs did their job today. I had a blast fishing with Will and Terry. They were both fun, easy going, and brown trout lovers!

Hog fever!

Today Will and Terry fished with me again. We were all dressed accordingly today for the weather. It was pretty chilly. It actually may have been the coldest day this year. The Corps was supposed to give us a really nice window of low water today but as expected they lied. We still had a great window of some nice falling water and fishing was great. We nymphed and chucked some streamers. Both were a success, but it was hard to quit nymphing to throw big flies when the action was so hot! At one point Will had a small rainbow on and about a 10 pound brown tried to eat the fish off of his line! Both the guys caught several nice fish. These pics are just a taste of how great the fall fishing is right now!

Butter Belly

I fished Will and Terry from about 12 until 4:30pm. I picked them up and it was about 55 degrees and cloudy. By about 1:00 it was raining and getting colder. There was a little over one generator of water running, so we rigged up the high water rigs and got after them. It was silly. In about 4 hours they caught close to 60 fish including a couple of nice browns and one real nice one that got away! As the day went on it got colder and colder, but the fish never let up. It was relentless. It was an awesome fall day on the Little Red River.