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mccarrel
My Parents moved to Idaho around Pocatello. The local river, the Portneuf, has been kind of trashed by cows but the last decade there has been a consistent effort to fence it off from the cows and keep the erosion down. I started hitting it hard on the fly last summer and was able to find some bows on the fly. I've never been able to get a Brown Trout on the line and heard that in the winter they're pretty active. Last winter I spent quite a bit of time scouting out water but never hit anything. Yesterday swinging a minnow pattern I hit my first little German Brown in a little riffle. Today I headed up river and after hitting another little brownee and a nice bow I found my first big bad German Brown in some deep water. He hit a swung weighted fly like a steelie. Though smaller, it was definitely fun on my five weight.