07-21-2018, 04:27 PM
We were out Thursday. We were on the water by 5:10. At one time early in the morning, we had 3 fish on at once, all cuts. Left the lake at 3:00 without ever seeing a koke all day. I know some other people were catching them but we could not buy a bite from a koke. We fished every color combination, everyplace we had ever previously marked a koke and at every speed from 1-2 mph.
Very discouraging.
When we came home the neighbor asked how we had done.
We were complaining about the fishing, but didn't get much sympathy when it came out that we had caught 15 cutthroats ranging from 16-20 inches. That's when I realized what a fish snob I had become.
Agreed that they don't fight (we had 5 big cuts come in where we were not sure we even had a fish on until it got close enough to see. They basically just swam up to the boat for us to release them).
But for a "normal" person those cuts would be the fish of a lifetime.
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