The next day we found "one of those spots" that you would never tell people about if you lived close and fished often. It was great.
Howard and I caught lots of fish in nearly every ripple. These rainbows were huge too for the size of the river. It was only about 25-30 feet across on average and just about two or three feet deep consistently with many pools. The fish we caught got up to 22 inches long with real girth too.
We fished together to allow for a good number of picture opportunities.
Howard caught many just under the 20 inch mark.
I also caught many this size and this one that measured 22 inches. I caught it right up along a bank on a size 18 bead head pheasant tail. I saw it taking something off the surface and must have tried about 30 drifts before taking her. She pealed away right away too and put up a great fight.
After all this action we decided we would definitely hit this stretch of river on this privately owned ranch again the next day.
Dinner that evening was exciting with talk about the days fishing and hefty expectations for the next day.
By the end of the next day we were both already sad to leave this gem of a river. I even caught this baby fish to show Max. He told me this was his favorite.
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