Who cares if the wind is blowing snow in your face or there's a little ice on the highway, if you can get there and don't mind bundling up, chances are you can not only have the river to yourself, but you might even end up with a monster cutbow or a brown like Lee Novotny of Lakewood. Yeah, if the name sounds familiar, it's because he's the same guy that caught and released a 12-pound brown a month ago.
"This 12-pound cutbow hit this last week for me on the Colorado River," said Novotny. "I had set my tape measure down and couln't find it when I caught the cutbow, but on the boga-grip scale she weighed 12 pounds and I guessed she stretched 27 inches, maybe 19 inches in girth."
Novotny used his homemade "ale egg" to catch the fish. His private pattern is currently up for review with Umpqua Feather Merchants here in Louisville, Colorado. Lee used a Sage rod/Ross reel loaded with Scientific Anglers Mastery Series line to haul in the catch.
A winter trip is in the works to not only see Lee in action, but to see the ale egg and just what it can do. Seeing is believing. Can his pattern pass the test with an official camera on hand?
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Can you show us a picture of what the ale egg looks like?
Thanks and enjoy your articles
Lee has sent a pic of the Ale Egg.
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