I decided to take the easy, flat 2 mile walk out to chitwood for some cutty action, the lake didnt dissapoint either.
I brought a raft, oars, ,3wt fly rod 6 wt fly rod, and a box of flies i tied up last week.
I arrived at lake chitwood at 9:30, trout were surfacing all over the lake immediately as i arrived, and continued to rise all day, some fish jumped 4' airborne, the fish were feeding aggressively. The first set up i got ready was the 6wt with a olive wooley bugger tied on, first cast, strip strip (slurp) set the hook, nada. Missed the hook set, 10 minutes go by casting and retrieving from shore, i changed over to a olive spider pattern, this pattern worked awesome, every 5 minutes or so i would get a hit. About 10 minutes after the pattern change, i hook up, and land a 9 1/2" cutthroat trout that hooked herself in the eye, kept. About 20 minutes later using the same pattern i hook up, but this time a larger fish. This one pulled some line of the reel, and gave a very nice fight, landed, 13 3/4" cutthroat. On the next hit i got i hook up with something very large, it took my fly and headed directly away from me like a freight train, pulling 30' of line off my reel until i felt a snag, then the fish was gone, and i was snagged on a submerged log :( i lose my fly, so i tie on my next fly which is a kind of cross over pattern, olive wooley bugger, with mallard barred flank tied on like a spider, so i guess an olive wooley spider size 2 (very large fly) i finally diceded to take the time to ready my raft, i brought, might as well use it. So onward i go, this time im using my 3 weight, olive wooley spider, almost immediately i land a decent 12 1/2" cuthroat, then a 11 1/2" cuttthroat, then i decided to paddle over to the other side of the lake to find nice looking open water, made one pass c&rd a 7" cutt and missed 2 hits, then i heard thunder so i headed straight for shore, i left my line in the water thoufh, i got all my gear out of tge raft and through my rod in the bushes (fly still in the water) and got on shore, dragged the raft up the bank, and just as i did this i see my orange fly line straighten out from the bushes, so i jumped over picked up the rod, and the fight was on this is a nice fish, it fought valiently, and jumped several times, i landed it after 2 or 3 minutes14" cutthroat and that was my limit, just as i finished packing up all my gear, it started to sprinkle and i left with my limit, and had an awesome time.