For the past 3 years a friend and I have made this a yearly ritual, of sorts. Sometime around Memorial weekend we visit the El Vado Ranch for 4 days of fishing for Brown Trout.
This year's trip was, once again, a great time for both of us. My friend caught the largest fish this year, a 21 inch Brown. He also lost one, of similar size, near shore.
As usual, there was a lot of hiking involved and we both held up fairly well. Long days of hiking over difficult terrain, early mornings and some good steaks at the end of the day, made for a memorable time for 2 guys who like that sort of thing.
On day 3 we ran into a friend who was there for the weekend. His luck proved out well, as the next afternoon he found an arrowhead along a trail over a bluff. I never get that lucky.
We learned a new technique this year, I came up with the idea of throwing a 3/8 gold Kastmaster across to the eddies on the far shore. I found the current would drag the line and prevent the spoon settling in the rocks, so all that was necessary was to hit your mark, the current did the rest. The fish would hit the spoon as the current pulled it out of the eddie, fun. We each caught a number of fish, that would otherwise have been inaccessible, using this trick.
All in all, the fishing was just average this year and we did have to work at it a bit. The trip was a great time, though, and we're already looking forward to next year.
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