reevesr1 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 I rowed my wife around Chaparral for just over an hour to try to get her a trout on the fly rod. She hooked a nice fish right off the bat, but lost him. A few minutes later she hooks another and gets it all the way to the boat, struggling to keep up as it was running right at her. She thought she had lost it, but I assured her she hadn't. She catches up to the fish, but looses it right at the boat when she gave it some slack worrying about reeling the loop knot thru the tip top. We row around a while longer, get a couple of hits without hookups then she hits another. This guy wanted to play on surface a bit with lots of jumps and direction changes. It made a big surface move right at us, Jackie's line goes slack "darn, it came off!" while the fish is still jumping. I assured her it was still on. She gets it to the boat and it made a couple of deep sounding runs. Finally we get it to the net and below is the result. This was Jackie's first rainbow on a fly rod. Her exact words "I can see why you like this so much!" I said "next time you're rowing." We'll work on handling skills. Fish was released, but a bit traumatized from the choke hold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monger Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Good show Rick. Good to hear Jackie had fun and can begin to understand the depth of your addiction a bit more. It was a fine day at the lake over here as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesr1 Posted May 24, 2009 Author Share Posted May 24, 2009 I heard. We need to stock bigger fish apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 That's awesome,Rick! Now,when are ya gonna row me around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxwell Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 sweet dude! congrats!~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustuphson Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Cool! That's a nice looking rainbow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanJuanWorm Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Congrats Texas Rick's wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jksnijders Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Nicely done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawgstoppah Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 right on. I remember my wife's first flyrod fish, she applied a similar "choke hold" technique on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ÜberFly Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Congrats Mrs. Tex!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillmy Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Way to go Rick and Spouse! That is awesome to get everyone out fishing. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesr1 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 Tried to get her out today, but she couldn't make it. Went by myself and I was anchored up and fishing back toward some docks, one of the mom's called out:"do you ever catch anything here?" I told her that I did, and better yet her pier was pretty much in the middle of rainbow central (troutlover-her's is the dock with the boats). She said that her son's fished, but never caught anything. Her son's were like 9, 7, and 5, all boys and very English! Could I show them how? I said sure, and they ran in and got the rod and reel. It was a 5 ft too stiff spinning rod and a reel with about 50 yds, maybe, of line. But certainly capable of catching fish on the lake. The lure of choice was a small 5 of diamonds. Again, certainly ok for the lake. But it was connected to a wire leader and a bobber above the leader. She said "some man" showed them how to rig up. I thought "not a fisher-man!" Anyway straightened out the gear, taught the 9 yr old how to tie a fisherman's knot, went through their box and showed them what I would use and gave them some pointers on how to fish the lake. Also gave the mom some suggestions on some better gear. As I was leaving the oldest boy said "one just chased my spinner!" Man, I love watching kids fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monger Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Great story Rick. I had the pleasure of helping my friend Patty get her first little rainbow on a dry today. I think she likes this hobby of ours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reevesr1 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 Rob, Nice fish! Patty will be spoiled. You suck by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Jeez Rob, where was that picture taken?? You're getting them on top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monger Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Oh no Russ, they only eat streamers and minnows. Ask anyone. Rick, thanks for the love brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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