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Fall of 2018 catch

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Brian, nice catch! Thats a great looking fish. I should have started this thread 2 months from now because I have a serious itch to fish after seeing the pictures. And now I have to wait for snowmelt! HA

WOW. Tony.. that thing is a monster, I didn’t realize we had Lake Trout in the higher elevation lakes. Let alone a Lake trout that massive! It makes me wonder if the fish I saw could be a Lake trout.
That 37″ fish is a beast.. probably eating chipmunks and squirrels that wander too close to the waters edge. haha
Thank You for sharing. I will get some photos of my monster this summer and share, I know where he prefers to be in the lake. I rarely see any other people fishing when I go on long hikes. Maybe some other backpacking fisherman will run across this thread and share their big or unusual catches as well.

Below is a photo of a nice looking -yet small- blue colored trout I caught and released.
Next photo down is my biggest trout of 2018.
Hopefully my rod is a little hotter this year!

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37 inches huh, I would love to see a picture of that. Is there a link to see this? I did a search and happened on the old forum about big catches. Ole Leif’s Brooke trout at the bottom of the page is something like the one I saw. Some of the fish on that forum are unbelievable! I wonder how they are catching fish so large, it seems like it must be bait fishing off the bottom to be catching the quantity of large fishing those guys caught. I personally prefer action fishing, the catch is always more rewarding.

Well thank you Brian, I appreciate the information! I hope to be posting a photo of my lunker on here sometime this summer. I will at least snap a photo from above the water and share, I think it may be larger than all the fish I saw on the forum 🙂

Also, do the trail-blazers still stock lakes and have monthly meetings? It would be great to participate in a future stock trip if they do. It would be nice to give back to the next generation.

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It was a rectangular sign. I found the sign at one of George Lewis’s “favorite lakes”. Wow, a 3 pound EB! That’s a nice fish. I thought I noticed the white tips on the fins of this fish I saw, maybe it is just a large EB. Once I saw the fish I couldn’t take my eyes off it, it was unnatural. I want to convince myself I am exaggerating about the size but it swam around me for a good minute, real slow, looked like a stubby log with fins, and I was too mesmerized to take out my phone and get a picture! I hope to catch it this summer and share a photo on here. What kind of lakes can grow fish this size which are not predators? Im assuming very large lakes with frogs/salamanders nearby.. Or are frog eaters considered predators as well? Are there any high lake state records? Looking for monster’s while the legs can get there!

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