We all like to catch trout. Matt and I are no different. Sometimes we catch lots of trout. Sometimes we catch big trout. And every once in a while we catch lots of big trout. Such was our trip to Rose River on Wednesday. My brother Marc and his son Jason traveled down from New Hampshire hoping to take in the best of Virginia trout fishing, and the four of us found ourselves in Madison County on one of the state's premier trout streams.
After spending the first couple of hours experimenting with the right fly combination and with only a few fish landed, we seemed to have cracked the code for the river for this day. A #10 white woolly bugger and/or a #10 Golden Retriever proved to be the top producing flies.
As Matt and I have prior experience on the river from past trips through Project Healing Waters and Orvis, we helped Marc & Jason initially in seeking out the best holes and runs. As the day progressed, they were successfully fending for themselves, taking off downstream and finding and landing lots of 14-17 inch beautiful rainbow and brook trout.
All told, each of us landed and released more than a dozen trout apiece. An awesome day!
But instead of writing about it, check out the pics below.
Matt with a nice rainbow.
Jason fighting a rainbow.
Marc with another beautiful rainbow before releasing it back to the river.
A classic Rose River rainbow.
Scott joining the trout catching festivity.
The New Hampshire boys will be taking some terrific memories back to the Granite State.
"Live Free or Die
Fish on!
Fish on... again!
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| Rose River at the base of the Shenandoah Mountains |
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