Been at Cooper the past two weekends hoping for more Browns like the one I caught in my last report.

Quick report from last weekend....fly rod had Intermidate line instead of type 6 sink. Spinning rod worked Daredevle TW Midge spoons pretty much all day. No Browns, but 14 RBT. My Classic Trout Fly rod tip broke on a small RBT early on so most of day I used my Spinning rod.

Saturday I brought two spinning rods. One rod I tried many different lures and different depths. The other was pretty much no weight and spoons.

I worked the logs to the left of the launch and got 3 and headed down to the mouth of the river to work the shallows and drop offs along the river mouth. Picked up a few on my way down and one might have been a Brookie as it was very small and came off at the boat. I saw a dead Brookie at the launch and it was about the same size.

Talked to an angler working the left side of the river casting and retrieving a F3 Rainbow Trout Rapala and doing well with small Browns, so I stopped trolling and did some of the same with a Brown Trout version.
Nothing so I left the Rapala on and trolled it and a F5 version.

That darn little Rapala was on fire while I tried an assortment of shallow plugs on the other rod with nothing. I quickly caught 10 RBT on the Rapala and then the bite stopped.

It picked back up later on and I caught nine more either on the Rapala or a Pink Daredevle Spoon. The wind was picking up and blowing back towards the launch so I headed back and let the wind provide my speed. I switched out the Pink spoon for a Hammered Brass and not even a minute later I picked up another nice Brown. Not as nice as the one two weeks before but enough to get the blood pumping again.


This one was 12-13” and not nearly as golden, but still a thing of beauty to my eyes. Picked up one more RBT near the launch for a total of 26 for the day. Planning on headed back if the winds look good next weekend and try a few more different things. The Browns keep me coming back.