I joined Wes for one day at the ford and had a great time. Nothing like sight fishing to fish as big as your leg. For my money it was way more exciting than taking a fish on a dry. Under Wes' tutelage I did pretty well and caught the largest rainbow I have to date. A true football that would have taken three of my hands to fit around its belly. Also witnessed Wes catch some bows that were pushing 30 inches and would have made decent summer steelhead. Very large fish all taken via sight fishing. Will let Wes expand on that and we did get a bunch of pictures to put up on the site.
Did have a question though. I did catch one fish that looked like a cutt-bow. I did not know they were in the ford but this fish had the distinct reddish-orange slashes under the jaw. Other than that it looked like a rainbow. Just curious if anyone else has seen this. -sean You Wrote: ---------- Well where to fish that was the question? Rattlesnake so I�d be sure not to get skunked or the lure of larger fish to the east. Well East won out and I headed over to Beda for my first time there. What a beautiful lake and lots of room for the 12 or so fishers. Very clear water made looking down into 12 or so feet of water and there were large trout just swimming around under my fins. Figured I needed to get down there so I put on my only 18 ft. leader and a red chironomid and in a few minutes I had my first and only fish for the day. Spent the rest of the day casting to rising fish with every thing in my box (well almost). Left around seven not wanting to camp at Beda (just a sandy parking lot) I chose the mixed rock and weeds of Rocky Ford for it�s convenient outhouse and otherwise outstanding local. Got in about 9:30 unloaded and went to sleep with only 3 other vehicles in the lot. Seems two guys had fished the Rock that day one guy had fished Dry Falls but preferred like me to camp at Rocky Ford and the Sunday morning I finally went over to talk to the guy in the VW van and it turned out to be our own Wes. He fished Rocky for two days and was going to Beda today. Needles to say we swapped notes and thanks to Wes I went off to fish parts of the Rock I�d never fished before. End result was I didn�t get skunked either day. After I gave up trying to figure out what the trout were sipping just below the surface, I switched to a green leech pattern and caught one and lost another on the first jump. Sure is fun to see all those big fish just hanging around. Ask Wes about the two big ones he caught� Tight lines my friends, Charlie _______________________________________________________ Processed by the CommuniTech.Net Web Mail Program
