Captain Ahab
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Got up early Sunday morning (11/11/07) and meet up with Mr. Fish for some trouting and traveling. We opted to head north to the Lehigh Valley to test the waters of the Little Lehigh and the Jordan. At out first stop I had a real nice trout follow my offering without a hit, this was a precursor of things to come.
We worked our way down the stream and found a nice pod of trout holding in an eddy area. We could see three palominos and several other large trout along with the normal assortment of smaller fish. Again, I had a large trout chase my lure and not take it. The palominos also chased (half heartedly) several times without a hit. We move on after giving these fish a good shot.
At the next area Mr. Fish managed to hook on fish after we both got "waked' by several. He switched off the jerk bait and got this trout to hit an inline spinner that he jigged off the bottom, drop and stop style:
We hiked much further downstream and Mr. Fish nails another in a tunnel:
Back up stream to hit the spots from the other side and Mike gets a few more on a Rappala countdown crank.
Here is a rainbow under the bridge:
And some browns:
We moved to the Jordan to explore a stretch that I recently obtained access. Nothing there but some monster suckers, but it sue looked like some nice water. Tried another stretch on the Jordan and I hooked a nice brown trout that popped off at my feet. Mike tried to grab it but it spooked and took off before he could give it the squeeze.
Finished off the day trying another area of the Little Lehigh, but crowds of joggers (including two young men, holding hands, who took a little too much interest in Mikes fishing abilities) and dogs in the water prevented any possibility of catching fish.
Nice day out and I am looking forward to the next trip when I get to catch the fish and Mike becomes the photographer
We worked our way down the stream and found a nice pod of trout holding in an eddy area. We could see three palominos and several other large trout along with the normal assortment of smaller fish. Again, I had a large trout chase my lure and not take it. The palominos also chased (half heartedly) several times without a hit. We move on after giving these fish a good shot.
At the next area Mr. Fish managed to hook on fish after we both got "waked' by several. He switched off the jerk bait and got this trout to hit an inline spinner that he jigged off the bottom, drop and stop style:
We hiked much further downstream and Mr. Fish nails another in a tunnel:
Back up stream to hit the spots from the other side and Mike gets a few more on a Rappala countdown crank.
Here is a rainbow under the bridge:
And some browns:
We moved to the Jordan to explore a stretch that I recently obtained access. Nothing there but some monster suckers, but it sue looked like some nice water. Tried another stretch on the Jordan and I hooked a nice brown trout that popped off at my feet. Mike tried to grab it but it spooked and took off before he could give it the squeeze.
Finished off the day trying another area of the Little Lehigh, but crowds of joggers (including two young men, holding hands, who took a little too much interest in Mikes fishing abilities) and dogs in the water prevented any possibility of catching fish.
Nice day out and I am looking forward to the next trip when I get to catch the fish and Mike becomes the photographer
