Tiger Hunt

Catching big Tiger Trout at almost 11,000 feet in elevation is downright groovy. The hour-long rock-hopping jeep-trail ride and subsequent hike isn't so groovy (hat's off to Jed for the ride) but it's an adventure.... queue video recap....




The rewards are big, colorful and pretty toothy.







Throw in a lot of nice cutts and smaller Tigers lashing out at dry flies and it makes for a pretty fun time....

Strawberry Cutthroats

Word on the street was some good cutts were popping up on a local stillwater to snack on dry flies. Ben is the stillwater ninja so we packed up early and headed to fish it.

Got on the water a o' dark thirty and got a few risers before the sun came up. Strawberry Reservoir isn't super well-known for it's dry fly action, but the fish are known to hit up top from time to time and today was our chance to hit it. Unfortunately for us, the inlet flows had changed and the bigger cutts decided to stay down more than come up -- so the big fish count wasn't as we'd hoped. The planter rainbows were easy to get on the dry though, so it wasn't a total loss.

A day on Strawberry without needing to throw leeches, wooley buggers and the normal stillwater fare is good no matter what. Fun day all the way...