Showing posts with label Flyfishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flyfishing. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Catch-n-Release
Rockbridge's stunning spring-fed Spring Creek offers exciting fishing for all fishermen from the novice to the expert. Use your fly rod in the rapids; teach your daughter to cast below the waterfall; or mount your own 10.5lb perfect rainbow!
Our spring fed stream offers a variety of conditions unique to both fly-fishing and light tackle fishing. From beautiful rapids to slow moving currents, sunny shallows to shaded deep pools, Spring Creek offers it all. Crystal clear waters, a gorgeous waterfall, towering trees, and monumental bluffs are just part of our spectacular setting. Generation after generation of families come to Rockbridge, Missouri, for the challenges it offers the most experienced angler, and yet the ease and success it offers the beginner. An average trout weighs about 2 pounds, but who knows, you may be the one to break our 16 pound record.
Brooke and Andrew fish on !!
Perhaps the greatest joy in my life comes from the moment captured in this photo. My daughter Brooke Riedy helping our family friend Andrew Mulligan battle a nice Rainbow Trout during the winter catch and release season at Bennett Spring State Park in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks.
Slough Creek, Yellowstone
As Howard Back remarked in his splendid The Waters of Yellowstone with Rod and Fly (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1938), this stream is locally pronounced "Sloo." It is a cutthroat stream of rare beauty with an abundance of splendid fish, and a good insect population.
Anglers regard the river as being in four sections. The first mile above its juncture with the Lamar is a cascade-riffle stretch through a steep canyon. It is not much fished. The reason is that from the bench at the head of this canyon to the second canyon, a half-mile above Slough Creek Campground, are three miles of really excellent water much more easily reached. It is pools, runs and riffles, one after the other, through an open, meadow-laced basin, and the largest fish in the creek are to be found here. But they are very difficult to catch in the larger sizes (twenty inches and up). Unlike many Yellowstone Park streams, this one is not paralleled by roadways. It is approachable by automobile only at the trailhead.
Does this count, If it doesn't make the chart below ?
Y E S I T D O ... Definitely Lotic Though!!!
As rainbow trout grow longer, they increase in weight. The relationship between length and weight is not linear. The relationship between total length (L, in inches) and total weight (W, in pounds) for nearly all species of fish can be expressed by an equation of the form:
Invariably, b is close to 3.0 for all species, and c is a constant that varies among species. For lentic rainbow trout, b = 2.990 and c = 0.000426, and for lotic rainbow trout, b = 3.024 and c = 0.000370.[5]
The relationship described in this section suggests that a 13-inch lentic rainbow trout will weigh about 1.0 pound, while an 18-inch lentic rainbow trout will weigh about 2.5 pounds.
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