Casting all day long, searching for that beast of a brown. I'm giving it everything I've got. I know that's what it's going to take if I want a decent shot at landing a big mature brown trout. I'm looking for a 20 plus-incher and they never come easy. And where I live, you're lucky to get a few opportunities at legitimate wild brown trout of this caliber all year long. We're approaching a bend that's known for holding butter slabs and I present a perfect cast right against the deep undercut bank. The retrieve begins, strip strip, pause, strip strip, pause. Without any warning my six-inch articulated sculpin gets slammed and my fly rod just about comes out of my hands. It's just been devoured by something very big, and I think it's what I've been looking for. I set the hook hard and my rod bends as the fish breaks the surface thrashing violently, shades of butter are spotted. "It's a brown!" I yell, but two strips and two head shakes later my fly pulls loose and the beast swims away. My prized catch is lost.
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