Northwest Fishing Reports

Gents, I also posted this as a report. Anyways, while fishing Medical last year, I caught a rainbow and then a brown. A short time later I had a third fish, this one a tiger, on the verge of the net when he threw the hook. I nearly cried! While Gator and I had each managed a "Trifecta" once before in Medical (rainbow, brown, tiger), we'd never done it in only three fish. I was convinced that it couldn't be done, and that that "close call" was as close as I'd ever come. Previously, we both needed several fish to net to make it happen because tigers are so few and far between in Medical.

Well, today the fish gods smiled down upon me. Three fish to net, all 18" (weird). A tiger first (that's really weird), followed by a brown and then a rainbow! I could smell Trifecta blood with the landing of that tiger. And I actually had a second brown to my pontoon boat which threw the hook. That was fortuitous, although I did not realize it at the time. I was only thinking of a Trifecta, not the perfect 3-fish Trifecta! Losing that fish preserved the perfect chance, one that came to pass when the next fish I hung and landed was the rainbow.

And no, I don't count lost fish just because I use barbless hooks. They don't count until they're in the net and my finger slides that fly from their snout....I still have to properly play and land them.

I'm 43 years old but right now I'm as tickled pink as a kid on Christmas morning!!!

P.S. I know that the term "Trifecta" applies to horse racing. We've just adopted it as our word of choice for Medical and it's three trout types...it sounds good!

Nice job dude.

Congrats on 3-fecta! Good stuff.

The rainbow fought the hardest and longest. It was a fat, very strong fish that made several long, powerful, drag-screeching runs, then stayed deep and refused to come up. I have to give the tiger it's props, though. Usually tigers that I catch stay deep, roll around like a cutthroat and tire relatively quickly. This one went absolutely ballistic, however. It launched three times and hit the drag once, leading me to believe it was a typical Medical Lake rainbow. Then it got deep and fought like a brown. The brownie fought as browns usually do....deep and hard, but without the aerial displays and strong runs the others produced.

Congrats=d>