Doc, Were you stripping the bugger in or dead-drifting it? If the former then the need for a 5x tippett is probably overkill as they're hitting the fly out of aggression.
Using streamers I tend to use straight mono line usually 6lb and above. All this coming from a guy who fished for Browns exclusively last summer and only managed to land one 19" fish. I broke off 5 fish I gather were pretty large (I had to do with poor knots and a stiff XP rod). My 2 cents, Preston Toronto, Canada --- "Dr. Doug Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get his &$@)!! nose outta the bottom? > > Doc > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DonO > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:21 PM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Advice > > > He 'nosed' into the bottom on you. Common tactic > for big browns. > DOnO > > OK, I'm not afraid to admit my ignorance! > > On the way home from the S-o-w-b-u-g, My > daughter and I stopped and fished a portion of the > White River. > > A very interestiong thing happened. Using the > "special" wooly-bugger, I hooked a really nice > brown trout. I mean reeeeeallly nice! > > I have never landed a big trout - caught a > bunch, but never landed one. This would be my > first. > > I played it for several minutes - line in; line > out; rod tip high, etc. The water was pretty swift > where I was playing this fish. Then a very odd > thing happened. . .it just stopped! I might as well > have been trying to pull stumps out! Not struggle - > and certainly no giving an inch. I thought I was > hung up. I released a little line - nothing. I > tried leading it to the left with my rod - nothing. > I tried leading it to the right - nothing. I > decided to give it a little more line. BAM! I > could have sooner stopped a train than stopped that > trout! Before I knew it, he cleared the surface and > broke off. > > OK. . .what did I do wrong? I was using a 5x > tippet - 3 lb. test. > > Thanks for your advice - and the other snide > remarks that are bound to come my way! > Doc
