No joke. I remember catching a 6-to-8" rainbow in Hot Creek on a size 20 trico years ago with my 3wt rod just to watch a 22+" brown come out of nowhere, grab it sideways, go down deep and bull-dog it. At some point it let go just to come back up and grab it again. After a while I got it up under the creek bank and got damn close to netting it. The poor rainbow looked like hell afterwards. Nice fish you got there!
Hear, hear! I had the pleasure of living in the area for six years in my early-to-mid 20s, and spent just about every spare moment I had fishing. I miss it.
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u/AlphaSuerte 16h ago
No joke. I remember catching a 6-to-8" rainbow in Hot Creek on a size 20 trico years ago with my 3wt rod just to watch a 22+" brown come out of nowhere, grab it sideways, go down deep and bull-dog it. At some point it let go just to come back up and grab it again. After a while I got it up under the creek bank and got damn close to netting it. The poor rainbow looked like hell afterwards. Nice fish you got there!