Fishing Report 7-25-05

My buddy from Edward Jones, Mark Burford brought his visiting friend from Kansas City, Val Budd. It was a post card morning with only a slight breeze and not a cloud in the sky. Perfect trolling weather as I like to say.

We got on the water around 6:00 a.m. and were working my little hole that has been pretty good to me of late. The preceding two trips had produced 36 brown trout to 4 Lb. by mid morning for the two days.

We are on the same pattern of fish at 25 to 40 feet with stickbaits on leadcore and downriggers. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record but that is how the fish respond during midsummer when they get into the thermocline. We quit by noon with 11 fish and Val got into a beautiful, hookjaw brown that was just a fraction under 7 Lb. on my Rapala gripper scale. Those are the trophies we all hope to get.

Look for my upcoming article about the best vacation of my life up in Yellowstone a week ago. We hammered some incredible kokanee at Flaming Gorge to boot. Some fantastic photos as well......


Tight Lines, Rick