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We camped out all weekend and left after generation started this morning. On Saturday my buddy will and I arrived at the campground at around 1 in the afternoon. We set up camp and started fishing at around 2:30 and stopped at 5:30, I caught brooks, and browns, but mainly rainbows that were 9-12 inches and I totalled 35. When we got back to camp my dad and another friend arrived. The next morning we fished from 7 am to 10 am and I caught 31 and they were mostly rainbows. after the generation stopped we went and waded from 12:30 to 1:30 or 2pm until it started to downpour. I hooked into a nice brown (on a white TM and chartreuse jig head) just as the wind and lightning was picking up, 5 minute later we landed the brown just as it started pouring, she was 21 inches and must have been full of eggs. After the rain died down we went back and fished, the water was murky so I decided to switch over to a pink TM. I did well with pink, catching 10 before I landed an 18" brown. My very next cast I hooked into something that shot off down stream with my line, 30 yards down it jumped and I saw it was a large rainbow, after that it planted itself in the deep water and heavy current for 30 minutes (I could not pull to hard with the 2 lb line) then we netted, measured (21 in) and released it. We had planned to keep some fish to eat for dinner so we kept eight 10-12 in rainbows. We each kept 2. The next morning (today) we waded for an hour and a half and I caught 29, all were almost identical rainbows except for a brook trout on my first cast. I will post pictures of the fish if someone tells me how. -Luke