When I first really got into trout fishing a few years back I was hitting the Caney 5 days a week from late September through early December. Even though they were generating around the clock I would fish at the boat ramp by the camp ground...and at the slew at Happy Hollow. I had it bad...I was becoming a trout bum. I even wrecked my car where 840 meets I40 trying to get up there early one morning. Pulled over and tied the front air dam back on to the car and went on up and fished and then turned the car in the next day for repair and used the rental to go back and fourth until my vehicle was repaired. I caught a bunch of trout during that time. I was at Happy and was using a very thin and very light flutter spoon sold by Trout Magnet. A huge Brown hit it and I had it to the ramp and it was every bit of 15 pounds. Then I thought the line broke...it had not broke but the lure I was using was never designed to land fish that size.....as I was later told. The lure hit me in the chest....the pop rivet that held the hook to the lure had popped loose. I had the lure still tied but minus the hook...LOL. I used to lay on my belly and watch huge Browns swim up into that slew. I would also be fishing over at the boat ramp by the camp ground and on my way home stop at at Happy and watch the Browns do that thing they do when they come straight up out of the water like a Trident missile. I would stay there until dark every night watching this during the late Fall when they go through that. Having fished the Red Sea and Persian Gulf for 21 years I have seen some big fish. I have seen lots of Browns up there in the 20 pound range. I don't think the general fishing population really knows just how big those fish are in there. I have told browntrout one day one of those things is not going to just follow our lures but hit it....then the battle will be on...LOL.
Regards
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