Just a few shots of what I deem a great trip. This was after Easter on my way down the eastern slope to Las Vegas. Caught more but, these 2 are my faves. The Owens River Upper and Lower gave me much reason to continue!!!!!! Flash Backs are the thing.
Psssh, that's not how you hold a fish! So dang dangerous! That thing could have taken your eye out! You were using the onchorhynchus method, only for rainbows. They bite a lot less and don't have the venom-tipped anal fin. Since I know your new to browns I'll help you out.
When the fish is to net you should immediately stick your middle finger down the fish's throat, as deep as it will go. Next push out through the gill-plate and swing the fish in the air, around and around. When the fish stops flapping around you know you've done your job and its time to drop-kick that fish as far upstream as you possibly can so that it will have enough time to recover as its floating down in the current towards its holding spot. Continue to catch this fish over and over and over since it will have become addicted to the hook in its mouth.
"There is no place I fit in so well as a stream...Fishing ties me into the world of water and animals it contains, into mystery and something so primitive and valuable inside me."---Seth Norman
Just tryin' to help a brotha out! I saw my bro Big J in a potentially life threatening situation and wanted to offer up my valuable input. If anybody else needs cues on handling dangerous browns my services are open.
...and if I'm in the Sierra Club then it would indicate that they have not been keeping up on their screening process. I've chopped down so many trees to burn in my fireplace that the typical SC nut job would explode right out of their birkenstocks and hemp-woven pants!
If you wanna help out a "Bro" you Sierra Club hippy, try this! 1. Get your wife a nurse and let get back on the water, tender hearted one. 2. Buy me a JL Winston, you know the one, you fancy Exect. type posuer. Oh, I'm going to Argentina..... Weee 3. Help me select from Jorge San Sabastians summer catalog, the perfect Fly Fishing Sombrero. Im feeling the Smoke Gray El Nino, which is spanish for El Nino..........
-- Edited by the big j on Thursday 21st of May 2009 04:25:49 PM
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