Rainbow Caught

Rainbow struck in about three feet of water. Fish was about 14 inches, chunky. 

I thought a couple of times that I could've done better fly fishing. Four or five rainbows in little more than two feet of water followed the jig while creating big pushes on the surface like big pickerel do. I hooked one of them for a moment, a trout at least 16 inches long. It's so warm out they're up top. Using a weightless Muddler Minnow, I could've created a little V-wake, like I used to do on Fiddler's Elbow stockers successfully, and maybe got these trout to fully commit. I also saw a few rises, so I could have tried dry flies, too.

I did tie on a little jointed floating Rapala and played with that, but the trout wanted the jigs. A couple of them went after the jig after I had fished the Rapala, too. Repeat offenders that had rushed the jig before.

I'm happy I caught the one rainbow. For that matter, it was fun getting the attention of all those other fish, too. 

It's beautiful back there. Had the fishing all to myself and it felt wild. 

Was wild.