I was fishing a trout river with Jeff F this past weekend and had a first time awesome experience.
I decided to go with a dry/dropper rig, which I never do, anticipating a yellow sally hatch. Like clockwork
the fish were rising everywhere from noon to 2pm.
I had a size 12 mini stimmie on top, small beadhead prince nymph on the bottom 24." I cast upstream and
a trout hits the dry...I set up, and fish on. As I'm reeling in, it feels pretty heavy, so I think I've got a
decent rainbow on. As I get the trout closer I can see another trout swirling below it a couple feet, so
I thought the bottom fish is trying to eat the top trout.
Nope, as I get is closer, I notice I've hooked a 10" rainbow on the dry, and another similar size is hooked
on the dropper fly. Two fish at the same time! I was so pumped, I yell to Jeff, lift them up out of the water
and the bottom fish pops off. I even had my camera around my neck, but was so excited it didn't cross my mind
to get a pic.
So all that to say, has anyone else ever caught two trout on two flies?? I'm thinking I should have played the
lottery this past weekend.
EricO
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