Yesterday Doug, Karen and I headed out west to try to catch cutthroat trout. The weather was cold but we bundled up and headed out anyways. We had to brave some snow covered roads and frozen puddles to get to our fly fishing destination. We layered up and started to look for some cutts. Many of our Eastern slopes cutthroat rivers close on November 1st. Lots of the cutthroat trout are heading to their wintering holes. Where we were fly fishing, the river was extremely low and the water was frigid. We rigged up with wiggle worms and tiny size 18 nymphs. It did not take too long to hook up with a dandy cutthroat on a size 18 poison tung (Charlie Craven pattern). The cutthroat were quite fussy but we did land 10 during our day. We found one hole that was full of very active cutts. We did cover several kms of the river and found that the cutts were residing in deeper holes. Many of the cutts were not too active. Later in the afternoon, the sun dipped below the foothills and the wind started to blow. We called it a day and headed back to Red Deer. It was a typical late fall day. We enjoyed being on the water. Our expectations were low and we caught enough cutthroat to make our day quite satisfying!
Golden stone nymph (Doug Pullan)
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