We had some good clean family fun in West Virginia this weekend. We did a lot of fun stuff of which we will elaborate on the family blog. Our fishing expectations were high because we had reservations Friday night in a cabin on a private trout stream. While the stream was worth several large fallfish, the trout fishing was a bit slow. We checked out of our cabin yesterday morning having failed to land a trout. We headed south for train rides and other family fun.
Enter the Bighorn Trout Ponds. Jennie presented the idea this morning based on a brochure. David and I said we were game. We ate breakfast and checked out of our motel and headed for trophy rainbow trout scrimmage. This place charges by the inch, and harvesting your catch is mandatory. It took us a couple of hours to land three trout which measured a collective 52 inches. This is not real trout fishing. But landing a 20” rainbow on a 4 wt fly rod is good training, and we are having trout for dinner. Where else can you get six pounds of fresh rainbow trout for ten bucks?
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2 comments:
Even if its not quite like fishing on a real stream in the wild, boy that is some rainbow.....anyway nothing like fresh caught trout on the dinner table.
Love,
Dad
It was fun. I guess it is only like this late in the season. This place closes next weekend. The 10-12" rainbows are all fished out. There were only a handful of fish in the ponds, but they were all 14-20".
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