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What to use?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ookiewater.jpg
Last year after the big floods (southwestern wisconsin) this dam was knocked
out. The area was about 5 feet shallower. ALL the
trout were centralized in three areas. Just at the end
of view in the photo.....
Last day of season....I saw a commotion way in the
foreground of this photo...
I went up to see what I thought was a beaver dinking
around. As I got closer i was WOWED. It was giant
brown chasing down little brookies in the shallows and
eating them. I got my camera out a little to late. The
brown was minimum 28 and fat. 3/4s of its body was
outta the water when it was chasing the brookies...saw
the brookies running like minnows....too far away to
get good movie.
The water is back up to the level in the photo. It is
about a 100 yards stretch....two beaver dams make it
so it can't leave. I usually don't chase brookies
because they aren't much of a challenge...Will this
spring
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well my obvious choice would be a clouser or dahlburg diver in brookie colors. Good luck going after that heifer!:D
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Galloup Trigger flies
There was an issue of Fly Fisherman in the last year that had an article by Kelly Galloup about trigger flies. I think using one of those with the retrieve described might be your ticket. Since it's a competing site I won't post the link, but it shouldn't be hard to find if you Google it.
I've also read about night being best for this type of thing on the huge ones and saw an episode of Fly Fish America with Joe Humphreys going after monster browns at night. If I remember right, doesn't WI have a 1/2 before and after light restriction? I never understood why they'd have that - I guess for poachers. Good luck gettin' that monster - remember the camera!
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If you can sight fish to this monster, maybe a deer hair mouse would get its attention. If its holding near a bank, get the mouse upstream a bit and give it some action.
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For a minnow eater I am looking at using this pattern this year: http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/patterns3.asp?page=30 I have been tying them in Gill colors to use for Bass and such this spring. Maybe going with Brookie colors would be the way to go.
Picture:
http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/imag...sh-sunfish.jpg
Hope you can catch and photograph him Spinner1 !! I am looking forward to seeing the pictures!