The day started out great. On my second cast I hooked into a large stocked rainbow. Everything went wrong after that. As I brought him to the net, snap, he was gone, with my last #18 zebra midge to boot. I spent the next couple of hours wrestling for space with bait fisherman. I decided to go back to the first spot to see if that fish was still there. Again, second cast BAM, hooked him again. This time he lasted about 3 seconds before he broke my line. I tied on another nymph, made another cast and got hung up on some flotsam. SNAP, there went my 7.5 ft Berkeley. Luckily Rip was on his way with my new TFO. After Chris showed up he helped me to rig up a euro rig and showed me the fine points. I caught a small wild brownie, he has a pic of it on his camera. I then took him to a spot where I knew there was a relatively large fish hanging out. It wasn't long before he had him hooked. Then SNAP, his leader broke. Chris retied a new rig and threw in again. I couldn't believe it when he hooked that fish again! But then SNAP, another broken leader. I gotta say, this fish is one of the largest that I've seen in this creek. He was extremely powerful for his size which led us to believe he was wild. Chris was pretty bummed out about losing that fish but he cheered up later after landing two stocked rainbows and a wild brown that was similar in stature to the one I had caught earlier. I am going back down tomorrow to get that big fish.
The day wasn't a total loss. I learned the basics of euronymphing and hopefully this will improve my catches on the Lopat. .