Rainbow Morning

Tuesday morning I picked up Josh Kempsell, for a morning fish. Josh flew in from Dallas Monday and wanted to fish before we got to work on projects.  Josh is a lead technician for the company I work for. He fishes Lake Fork and other major Bass lakes in and around the Dallas area and occasionally fishes for trout and when he does they are planter trout. So I decided to take him to Deer Creek and see if we could find some big browns and bows.

We launched at the state marina and by 6 am and we were on the water fishing. Started trolling immediately headed towards the dam. We were marking fish along the roadside cliffs but did not get any interest. At the buoys, we turned west and tracked across the buoy line. That's when the fun began.  We made the turn to go across the lake and the inside line with the Jack of Diamond popgear got hit. Josh picked up the pole and started the morning off with a small rainbow trout.

Josh got his line back in the water and set just in time to get another hit.  A nicer rainbow trout still on the JOD popgear. Josh was getting to like this fishing. The Rainbow didn't disappoint it gave Josh a nice display of acrobatics as it came into the net.  This one a nicer 18-inch caliber rainbow trout.  The largest he had caught to date.

We continued on and put his line back in the water and then the light line with the #landitwithbandit B-shad Parakeet on it got a massive hit. Josh grabbed that pole and began reeling. This fish on the 7 ft medium action rod was a nice fight with a couple tail dances and displays, that is what makes me love catching big Rainbow trout. Josh was getting excited since he hadn't caught a rainbow this big.  He got it to the boat and in the net for a couple pics and it came in right at 2lbs.

I was running a "Thumper" two-tone nickel/brass Jack of Diamonds on my pole. We made a wide sweeping turn to go back through the lane, as we did so my line got hit.  On the outside of the turn, it sped up my popgear and the Rainbow was hooked up. A nice fight ensued and displays of full-on breaches were enjoyed by both of us. The fish was netted and high fives for the biggest fish of the morning so far were given.

We fished this lane until we were moved in on by other boats watching us catch fish and the bite turned off for the most part. We finished with 8 Rainbow trout in the net and LDR'd a few fish. We stowed the trolling motor and got on plane quickly moving to our next lane. Reaching the end of Rainbow Bay I set the boat down in the calm waters and set the trolling motor in action. The Ultrex got up to speed quickly and we had our lines set. We trolled through the Dead Sea and down through the Sea of Galilee, and made our turn out across Bearing Sea as we made our turn I got one to hit, landed it quickly and got the line back in the water just in time for Josh to catch his 7th fish of the morning and I got hooked up on another and landed my 5th Rainbow trout for the morning. A nice double up to finish the morning with. We ended the morning with 12 Rainbow trout in the net and Long Distance Releasing (LDR) a handful of other fish along the way. It was a solid morning of catch and release, loaded the boat by 10 am and on our way back to the valley.