ONCE IN A LIFETIME FREAK EVENT!
Just one day before we arrived at Spearfish City Campground they got 22 inches of rain AND 2 inches of M&M-sized HAIL, and this BLEW the creek for a day...
... but it also raised the wayer level at the DC BOOTH FISH HATCHERY, so many of their monster browns & cutthroats were running amuck in the stream!
DON'T KID YOURSELF, thus DIDN'T make them easy to catch and/or land, as they were OUT of prison, and they WEREN'T going back!...
What made THIS catch memorable was that he (big fat muscular male at least 24 inches and 7+ lbs) LAUNCHED at MY hand-tied "Sexy Beast Wooly Bugger" that I typically only use on RIVER SMALLMOUTH BASS...
WHO KNEW it would be CRACK to a jail-broke monster BROWN TROUT too?!
ENJOY!
-Mark Vogt / VOGTLAND OUTDOORS
