Fishing Report 3-12-06

I got a call from a fellow trophy trout junkie on Fri. that I just have to share. Dan McAllister, his Dad Jerry and brother Dave had a trip to Crescent planned and pulled it off in spite of horrendous conditions at the lake. After all the recent snows and coupled with some major ice in the bay in front of the resort, they managed to finally hit some water to fish. Boy, did it pay off.

I won't go into great length about all the circumstances because Dan will have all the details up on his reports page at Jimmy Lewis's site trophytrouthunter.com by now. I want to take the opportunity to congratulate Jerry for catching his first brown over 10 LB. and releasing it, to boot! I believe that this is the first brown caught in Oregon over 10 LB. in 2006! I'm sure that he would agree that a lot of the credit goes to his son Dan, who has been targeting trophy trout for several years now. Dan is another of the up and coming young guns in the trophy trout world from the Willamette Valley, here in Oregon.

Dan was responsible for my 5.75 LB. brookie a couple of years ago. He invited me to fish with him and we had a "brookie" day to remember, with 9 fish landed and another 5 LB. fish lost at the boat, it was a trip I will never forget.

Check out these photos of their trip. I will say that they caught all their fish, including the 10 LB. brown on Excalibur Minnows. Funny, where I have I heard the name of that lure? Maybe Pradco will bring it back someday.

Tight Lines, Rick