Well it’s that time of year again.  Time for the October hunt for the great Cutthroat troute on Strawberry reservoir.  Its a great opportunity for NUTS like me to get out and enjoy the fall weather and catch some big fish!!!!!   First the beauty…So the leaves and the lake were beautiful on Monday.Harry was doing pretty well with the fishing.  While I tried everything in my fly box, Harry and Art were pulling in the trout.

So Art looks like he’s having a great time right.  Actually he was taking pictures of the fall colors around the lake.  Art’s boat doesn’t have an electric motor for it yet so… We tie out boats together and then I can get him out and into the areas were the fish are.  Once I cut him loose from my boat he started catching fish.  He only stayed up there fish till noon because… It is also the elk hunt this week.  So we had our friend Johnny meet us up there and pick up Art.  So… he is now up on Tabiona Mountain (Tabby) hunting the elk.

So… Here’s Johnny!!!!!!!

And off Art went, after catching 6 nice Trout, leaving me to try to catch some fish.  I only caught 2 fish 3 hours. Now Art and Harry were using a small renegade as a dropper on the line with a white minnow pattern as the end fly.  I of course tried this and only two fish.  Its always a wonder to me how a fish can hit on one fly pattern pretty well but…. If you can find that magic fly that they are hungry for, it’s like a feeding frenzy.

Well about 4:30 in the after noon Harry and I desided to call it quits (Harry 20 fish Ray 2) and started back toward the truck, (about a mile away.  Just before starting back I switched out the white minnow pattern for a dark olive wolly bugger with grey hackle, and copper wire holding the body together.  Also it had a black tail and pearl tinsel.

I cast out and wham!!!! My third fish.This is one of the small fish about 18 inches long.  Most of the fish we caught were 19 21 inches long.

I then proceeded to have one of the bast 1.5 hours of fishing I have ever had.  I couldn’t get the line back in the water before I had another one on.  I ended up catching 18 fish.  So a total of 20 fish for the day.  In that 1.5 hours Harry only caught 6 more fish.  It was a great afternoon.