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Fish: Grayling
Surprise! Grayling!
Post By: ThoseGuys26      Posted: 9/4/2011 6:52:52 PM     Points: 248    
Had a great surprise the other day. The sun was dropping and some sippers came to the surface. Figuring they were trout, I tried to match the hatch and started sitting size 20 dries out around all the sipping. To my surprise, they were Grayling! I've never targeted or caught a Grayling so it was pretty exciting, had to share.

Fish on!
 Reply by: Fiddler1986      Posted: 9/4/2011 7:22:39 PM     Points: 2600    
Very cool. Grayling are on my list. Congrats!
 Reply by: ThoseGuys26      Posted: 9/4/2011 7:26:45 PM     Points: 248    
What a crazy dorsal fin. Prehistoric looking. As usual, I let released them all but I hear Grayling are pretty tasty smoked.
 Reply by: pilotphil      Posted: 9/4/2011 8:32:02 PM     Points: 851    
Pretty fish. Never caught one, back home they were always protected. Here they stock them, go figure.
 Reply by: spinn3r      Posted: 9/4/2011 9:27:34 PM     Points: 2692    
Nice work, ThoseGuys26. Grayling are relatively hard to come by here in Colorado, and I've only caught them near Joe Wright. So I got a kick out of it when they seemed to be in every body of water when I visited Alaska last month. It's like trying to find a bluegill in a city pond around here.
 Reply by: PanfishRFun!      Posted: 9/5/2011 9:55:01 AM     Points: 563    
Awesome catch! beautiful fish...scratch that one off the ol bucket list
 Reply by: ThoseGuys26      Posted: 9/5/2011 2:06:21 PM     Points: 248    
spinn3r - nice fish! These were hard to target. They were super picky. It finally took a size 20 Griffith gnat to get them to take.

PanfishRFun! - they now have a check mark on the bucket list and I plan on putting some many more check marks behind "Grayling" ! :)
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