07-19-2015, 03:03 PM
A couple of fellow BFT members joined me for a redo at Electric Lake. Arrived at the ramp and threw out my two minnow traps. Only caught one minnow in one trap, but the other trap, in less than 20 minutes, caught enough to supply us for the day.
It took us a few hours to find the fish, but when we did it was fairly steady action until the bite died off about 4 PM. We caught about an equal mix of tiger trout and yellowstone cutthroat. The largest fish went just over 17 inches and many were nice heavy fish. All but one fish were caught on tubes, tipped mostly with cut bait red-sided shiners. A little surprisingly, the top color for tubes was yellow. Casting and retrieving only yielded a few fish, but dropping straight down (my favorite method of fishing for trout) was working. Always fun to fish for tiger trout, because they are so aggressive. We had many fish follow our tubes right to the boat. I wasn't paying close enough attention, when I reeled in once, and had one jump out of the water, chasing my tube as I lifted it out of the water.
Nice day of fishing with Neldon and Nate.
No fishy pictures, but I did get an interesting shot of a shoe tree near Thistle.
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And here is a link to some better pictures.
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It took us a few hours to find the fish, but when we did it was fairly steady action until the bite died off about 4 PM. We caught about an equal mix of tiger trout and yellowstone cutthroat. The largest fish went just over 17 inches and many were nice heavy fish. All but one fish were caught on tubes, tipped mostly with cut bait red-sided shiners. A little surprisingly, the top color for tubes was yellow. Casting and retrieving only yielded a few fish, but dropping straight down (my favorite method of fishing for trout) was working. Always fun to fish for tiger trout, because they are so aggressive. We had many fish follow our tubes right to the boat. I wasn't paying close enough attention, when I reeled in once, and had one jump out of the water, chasing my tube as I lifted it out of the water.
Nice day of fishing with Neldon and Nate.
No fishy pictures, but I did get an interesting shot of a shoe tree near Thistle.
[inline "Thistle shoe tree.jpg"]
And here is a link to some better pictures.
[url "https://www.flickr.com/photos/hauntedmind01/17374698991/in/photostream/"]Link [/url]
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