Between baby making/growing, work, bad wildfire smoke and hunting season, fly fishing has been on the back burner for a while. Finally finished up chores and with the freezer full, we decided to hit the pond. I caught a couple 10 inch rainbows on backswimmers right away. She was struggling with roll casting in the wind with the 5 wt so I handed her my 8 wt. A lot of practice casts and a couple missed strikes and she squeals “I got one!!” I look over and see the bend...in the 8wt...HOLY SMOKES!!...grab the net and she manages to pull in a 16.5 inch TIGER TROUT as her first ever fish on the fly rod! Unreal. She outfishes me all the time and I couldn’t be any prouder
And ya, it got eaten an hour later. Lemon pepper, seasoning salt, butter. Surf and turf with some deer backstrap as well. That pond winterkills every year so no point letting it rot on the bottom in feb. It tastes very similar to brook trout.