12" average, huh? I'd say that's pretty generous. 10" is my average, with 1 or 2 fish pushing 14" each trip. This last summer I did find one that was pushing 17".

These rivers get hit pretty hard, but I found a few 'secret spots' where on a warm summer night you can't keep them off your fly. Most of these guys are 6 to 10" and you'll have 2 or more going for you dry fly at the same time. Sometimes it's so crazy, I've actually sent 6" trout flying over my shoulder on my back cast.

When they aren't hitting the dries, I'll either stick on a wooly bugger or whip out my ultra light spinning rod. That's when i usually find the bigger ones.

One of these days I need to go find where they hide in the winter and try to get into some white fish as well. I've caught several whities up there while trout fishing over 3lbs.