Welp, summer has come to a close up on the high prairie and soon all the trout will start getting active for the winter. It definitely has been a slow summer, as we had a dry-ish winter up here, and a lot of the reservoirs had more water drained out of them than water flowing in. I caught a few small fish when I went out this summer, but nothing very picture worthy....a few graylings, a bunch of little stocker rainbows and a cutthroat here and there. It's always pretty up in the mountains though.
We finally had some cool weather last weekend, and hoped some larger trout might be stirring early, but alas, I hooked up with my biggest catch up here so far, but not a trout. Still, a fish is a fish, and I caught this one which was just shy of 22 pounds on a little 1/4 ounce trout spoon an ultralight rig.
Oh well, it was a good battle, and maybe I will get a bigger lake trout as the weather gets frosty.
Never butt heads with buttheads.
