Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3612 May 26-June 9 | Page 23

VOL.36 • ISS. 12 FRESHWATER 19 May 26 - June 9, 2017 WHAT’S HOT Continued from page 10 you’re hoping for quick action, but it wasn’t to be on the 25th. Our first strike didn’t come for about 40 min- utes, but when a fish ripped one of Monte’s spoons off a starboard side downrigger, we could tell right away that it was a good one. Dan fought the fish expertly and despite some spirited runs and wild jumps he put the first rainbow of the day into the boat. It was a sleek square tailed beauty that measured about 22 inches long. Buoyed by Dan’s fish we were hoping for a flurry, but that didn’t happen. Instead we fell back into the pattern of trolling along quickly, pros- pecting a maximum amount of terri- tory. It was another 30 or 40 minutes before another trout came knocking. This one wasn’t as big as Dan’s, but it was still a handsome holdover that spit up a chrome bright shad minnow when it hit the deck. The pattern we established was that there was no pattern, but there were some quality trout up for grabs. We’d troll anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour between strikes and Dan, Ben and Reed took turns fighting fish. By the time we called it a day in the late afternoon, there were 8 handsome rainbows in the ice chest and we’d only lost one fish. We probably lost it because I was trying to capture some underwater video footage of it, but nobody was complaining. Dan’s 22 incher was the big fish of the day, but Reed landed one in the afternoon that was just a tiny bit smaller. It was a great trip that featured decent fishing, lots of instruction from Monte and lots of stories from all of us. 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