Thursday, October 8, 2020

Rainbow Falls With Andy Holley & Yoho 08Oct20

Jim and I were hosted by Andy Holley today at Rainbow Falls Mountain Trout private water. Wow. We caught many good fish on the stream sourced from a spring and as an effluent from their pond structure. The stream is like many steps down over tiny falls and good holes. While it was pretty crowded, Andy directed us sharply to great spots and while the water was low and slow, it was cool enough and feeding fish were observed all day. There's a ton of fish biomass at this place. I mainly caught rainbows, including a couple 20"ers, on #22 CDC BWOs. Plenty of times I thought I needed my bigger net but couldn't carry it as we were simply wet wading and I didn't have "the belt." I did catch one nice brown ~18". I caught the 1st big fish on my 4th cast of the day on a purple reign midge and my Godfather Cutthroat snapped during the end of the fight. While I still landed him with a broken rod, I am pretty disappointed in the flawed blank. There were no etchings on it as it was just the 4th good cast of its life. Hmmm. I used the Sage One for the rest of the day, without incident. We had a number of double hookups but not any triples.This was a really fun day fishing; thanks Andy! Of course we took him to Cerberus once back in town. Now, what to do about the drc #3?

UPDATE 14Oct20... CTS NewZealand acknowldged the flaw in the blank and will replace it. The vendor is recovering my guides but still, I have to rebuild that section. We'll see; I was SO hopeful of that blank and I may need to find an alternate.

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