RIP Baby Brown Trout Articulated Streamer..

[JG63]

A moment of silence please - for whom the bell tolls:

Robbed by an evil Tyrannobrown somewhere in the Cumberland Valley limestone belt. Big trout eat little trout - nae feesh photo fer this 'un. Everything went according to plan except the poorly tied Rapala knot on the 14# shock tippet. Feesh threw the streamer (I had smashed the barbs on primary/trailer hooks) and I watched the streamer float away - 50 feet away at the head of a riffle. Probably in Lake Clarke by now unless a musky picked it up.

 

[jeremymcon]

I bet that burns. Always sucks to lose a fish to a bad knot. Especially a good fish. Have you tried the nonslip mono loop knot? It's about as easy to tie as the clinch knot, and is quite strong.

 

[Chaz]

Why you always tie at least 6 of a pattern.