Striking gold on the South Branch

[Bucksnbows]

Flows finally subsided on the SBR to get some time on the water. First fish came quick as water temps hit 51 today on the SBR. A small wild brown which is always a good sign.

 

 

Next few fish were rainbows with this nice holdover jumping several times on me and running me under a log that I had to wade out to and free my line. Luckily it was still on and I landed it after one last jump.

 

 

But the fish of the day was a solid 20" plus wild brown that pulled hard and long like only a big, wild brown can do.

 

 

 

 

 

Time to head home and enjoy a cold beverage. All fish released to fight another day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Oneday121o]

Sweet, nice pictures.

[Silver Belly62]

Nice job 

[TDietz]

NICE!!  Time for me to come outta hibernation, ha, what were they eating? Beautiful fish

[Rusty]

Some real nice fish there Brian.    

[County Hunter]

great pics! great looking fish. 

[51smd]

Cool

[Mallard1100]

Wow!!! Nice. Looking fish

[mightyhunter]

Very nice!

[Bucksnbows]

They were eating both caddis pupa and "junk" like rainbow warriors.  Saw my first mayfly of the spring, a Quill Gordon.  But just the one.  By tomorrow we'll see a bunch more of them plus Hendricksons and Blue Qulls.  Plus more and more caddis every day now.  Temps climbing all week and staying warmer at night will fire up this river soon.  

[Bucksnbows]

Also saw a mature bald eagle fly by and later an osprey that kept trying to catch a trout, but to no avail.  He was in a tree nearby a couple of times, but with just an I phone, there was no chance to take photos of either of the big birds. 

[LPJR]

Looks like it was a great day fishing Brian!

 

Awesome pics also  

[Kype]

awesome day. like you mentioned, next couple days will have quite a few hatches.

[Cedars]

Beautiful fish. Nice to know that fish like that, are around, if one can find them.

Edited April 9, 2017 by Cedars

[hemlock]

Some nice fish and pictures nicely done.