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I FOUND A GIANT BROWN TROUT!!

My passion for brown trout drives me to fish through rain storms, wake up at ridiculous hours, and fish miles of water with almost no return on the investment of my time. As time goes on and life becomes more busy I realized that every moment spent on the water is worth it’s weight in gold… which is why when my buddy JP and I planned out a long day of streamer fishing I knew something good was going to happen.

Passion drives much of my decision making… and after an hour or two of fishing with nothing to show for it we should have just changed plans. But rarely do I make rational decisions when I’m looking for brown trout, plus we were already so committed to what we were doing.. and then my luck changed in an instant. With the first wild trout of the day we continued on and I found a giant...

The definition of passion, at least in the non-biblical sense, is a strong and barely controllable emotion. And I can promise you nothing else on earth will make me lose my mind like breaking off a big fish. Spending so much time only to be robbed of the one thing you’re after takes me out of the game mentally. I start to lose focus and my fishing takes a turn for the worse. It takes me a while to reset and refocus and if it happens more than once it's NOT good!

And just like that our day was made. Finding those windows when the big fish are active is half the game. We had fished for hours at that point with sparce action, then within 5 minutes I had 2 20 inch fish practically jump out of the water for my fly and JP caught a good brown. The water clarity was rapidly changing and I truly believe that the fish know they’re about to struggle to eat for a few hours, if not a few days, and try to get a last bite to eat. I’ve said this before but streamer fishing is rarely a numbers game. Could we have gone nymphing or used a different fly fishing technique to catch more fish? I’m sure, but there’s nothing quite like brown trout rolling on your streamer. So I guess the lesson in this video is to never give up, no matter how horribly your day is going.

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