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    E28756FC-DA1D-40AF-A363-3613B9FB6585.jpg ​ Well, finally got out again after a 6 week withdrawal. Hooked a very heavy fish early on and after a long battle it came unbuttoned. 4 hours and 2 miles of stream later, again I connected with yet another very heavy fish. This one took me up through an extremely heavy fast run several times and then fast powerful runs downstream then towards me , picking up the slack in the line was futile. I should’ve lost this fish a half dozen times. After , what seemed like an hour I was able to hand land her. I could’nt believe my eyes! And, why is it when you forget to bring your net , this happens? Definitely a Miss Piggy look alike. So, sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good ​
    Last edited by wildbrookies; 04-24-2023, 12:10 PM.
    "Get your mind off trout,if you can.I know they`ve got you.I can see it. Every fraternity of sufferers knows its brothers.Trout hook men;men don`t hook trout.Better try and throw the hook while you can.By the time you`re a grown man there probably won`t be a pure trout healthy enough to fiddle with"... Quote from Emerson in the book "The Earth Is Enough"by Harry Middleton
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    Very nice rainbow!
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    • #3
      Definitely a great Rainbow! I love those miraculous moments when you manage to land a fish that you definitely thought you would lose.
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      And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed,
      In the smothering reek of mill and mine;
      And death stalks in on the struggling crowd?
      But he shuns the shadow of the oak and pine?
      ― George W. Sears Nessmuk, Woodcraft and Camping
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      • #4
        Very nice fish and I don't have any issues with the role luck plays. Then again, you often make your luck.
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        • #5
          Nice WB!
          “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. They smelled of moss in your hand. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
          ― Cormac McCarthy
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          • #6
            Outstanding! Looks like one of your many epic battles from the past!
            Oscar Wilde:Work is the curse of the drinking class
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            • #7
              Thanks! Adk fishing , Daxwood, EC and Glen. I was ok getting skunked but , literally at the buzzer she came through for me as I was almost back to the truck. Yes, VT , but a totally differant river. It’s a river my brother and I saw decline around 10 years ago. It’s slowly coming back. But, it seems the big boys/girls are wiping out any smaller trout. I haven’t caught a trout under 14-15” (not a balanced fishery right now)there in quite awhile there are some very nice holdovers that own certain areas. A lot of legwork but it’s worth it. But we miss our old stomping grounds though. Maybe in a few years that river will rebound yet again. How have all you fishers doing so far this year? Thanks guys! Now get out there and catch some fish and brag about them like me right here! Haha.! WB.
              "Get your mind off trout,if you can.I know they`ve got you.I can see it. Every fraternity of sufferers knows its brothers.Trout hook men;men don`t hook trout.Better try and throw the hook while you can.By the time you`re a grown man there probably won`t be a pure trout healthy enough to fiddle with"... Quote from Emerson in the book "The Earth Is Enough"by Harry Middleton
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