Headed up to the Whites Saturday afternoon to fish a couple days with Mike F. and Mike M. I hit Horseshoe-Cienega lake for an hour on Saturday evening and managed a few stocked rainbows in the 10-12″ range.
The next morning we headed out to Reservation to try and find some Browns cruising shorelines. The wind was howling and when we arrived it looked like this…
Not excactly the optimum conditions for spotting fish. We headed to a back cove where the wind was not so bad and we managed to catch some stockers, but did not see the big browns. Mike M. did manage to catch a nice rainbow and broke off a big fish on 3X.
We hit Crescent on the way out and it was just a ton o fun. Mike M. had the hot hand and landed about a dozen brookies in an hour. Mike F. and I managed 5-6 fish each, a great way to end the first day. Most of the brook trout were in the 10-13″, a couple that were a little bigger, but all were little fatties that were extremely aggressive.
Monday we headed over to Hon-Dah to secure dates for some outings in 2009 and then over to Hawley. I got nailed a couple times on my first few casts and Mike F. saw some big fish cruising. From there it turned into stocker city for me, it seemed like I was getting hits on every cast for a while, just not the kind I was looking for. Mike F. landed a brown pretty early on. I ended up rolling over to Earl Park at about 11 and saw some big fish cruising at the dam, just could not get a shot at them. Rolled back over to Hawley to check on the Mikes and they reported a bunch of stockers caught. Then of course when I left to go check on the Earl Park fish again, Mike M landed a couple nice browns. We did not get the monster fish we were looking for, but a great couple days in the mountains…
