Author Topic: A little afternoon practice with the Frenchie (Read 403 times)

Aaron Laing · « **on:** June 22, 2010, 06:12:48 PM »

I knocked off for an extended lunch today and went down to my local crick for a little practice with the long line and a couple of newly minted #14 frenchies. I fished the frog water for the first hour, then moved downstream to fish two skinny little channel pools, and finally went upstream to fish the easy water below a brisk little plunge pool for 15 minutes. The slow water yielded a LM Bass (a rarity), a few Redsided shiners, a few salmon parr and a good sized pike minnow. The channel pools gave up a couple of larger salmon parr, a few small cutthroat and a good number of little shiners--although I resorted to throwing wets to catch the shiners.

The plunge pool was a no brainer and a bit of a treat after flogging the skinny stuff. Picked up eight fish (cutthroat and steelhead parr) in 15 minutes including this little beauty (a relative trophy for this creek at this time of year):

Caught on this:

These were the first "frenchie-caught" fish in over a year. Up to this point it was a pattern I was a little sceptical about, but no more.

Aaron

Dejon Hamann · « **Reply #1 on:** June 22, 2010, 07:29:32 PM »

Great little piece Aaron. Concise, well written, and 2 beautiful pics. I'm putting THAT one on the cover!

You know what they say mate: "once you go french you never go back."

John Killinger · « **Reply #2 on:** June 22, 2010, 08:58:21 PM »

I was out and I caught some fallfish, sunny's and rock bass...

Mike Wisniewski · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2010, 02:52:57 PM »

Aaron

Now that you man enough to handle the Frenchie, try Loren's Stud. Both patterns are like having a blonde and brunette. The 14 year old in me loves these names.

Mike