Fng's First Time Out

[darrinhurst]

Many thanks to Mike (leadhead) and Chris (bigbadbrown) for taking me out on the Bow today! I had an awesome time, except for that damn wind! Makes the casting even harder for a rookie to learn! I'll get the double haul once I am done learing the basic fly cast......

 

Here are some pics from our day.

 

Beatiful Day for a fishin' trip!

 

Mike and Chris surveying the water.

 

Mike lands the first Rainbow of the day.

 

Chris hooks his brown.

 

And what a brown it was!

 

24"+ !!

[darrinhurst]

My first strike!

 

Fought like hell with that thing.....only to find out later that my reel was :$*%&: !

 

My first Rainbow, not bad for a noob!

 

Chris hooks another....I think that was three on the day for him.

 

And this little bugger decided to hitch hike home on my jacket!

Found him after I got home with the kids in the car.

 

All in all, it was a great day. I could have used a little less wind, I hope that it died down for Chris and Mike after I left.

 

Thanks again guys! I hope we can go again soon!

 

Darrin

[darrinhurst]

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[chidders]

Great job! Looks like you had some great company to help out.

[maxwell]

dope browns chris.. lookg liek a sick day! the wind wasnt fun too deal with too say the least today.. she was HOWLIN!

[darrinhurst]

Chris, empty your inbox dude, I can't reply to your message!

[j5ep00]

its emptied

it was a great day minus the wind..

i was fishing a double streamer rig and hooked right threw my shirt threw my back and back out my shirt lol

thank god for barbless hooks!

we got into a a few more nice fish after you left.

mike landed a 23 bow and the fish were rising hard starting at 930 or so.

there were huge clouds of tricos? and lots of caddis.

great job today darren your doing great for a only your third time out!

 

also today we caught fish in all sizes from 8" to 24".

the little ones were mixed in with the big ones.

[darrinhurst]

Nice!

 

Now check your pm's.

[Tungsten]

glad you where able to hookup darrin ,kinda lucky you landed your first bow river bow ,on a wire worm,and a effed up reel and that fish still pulled out line .the stars where alined for you on your fisrt trip.

[darrinhurst]

They were. Thankfully I was able to get the reel fixed. Evidently the backing was wound on so tight that it was bowing the spool so that it was rubbing on the reel body like a disc brake. They re-wound it with some new backing at no-charge. Pretty good service.