UPHunter89

Well, I finally got out for the 2006 trout season in Wisconsin. Been a long awaited event. We left Friday around noon and checked into our hotel at 5:30 PM. After reporting to Wal-Mart for lisences and trout stamps, we headed out to a few creeks with little luck.

In a bit of a drizzle partly cloudy skies, we managed a few browns here and there...


The next morning (Sat), we spread out down this big creek and agreed that he would work he way back towards the bridge and pick me up as I worked my way down past the bridge. Well, after I brought in 2 nice browns a lost one, I was walking down the creek and spotted a monster swimming around in the 4 foot deep portion of the creek. So, I take few steps back not to spook him and let my line go into the depth about 6 or 7 feet down the creek. As I meaneuver the line in the general direction of the fish, the line takes a quick right turn and the big one is hooked! After about a 5 minute fight (which left like forever), I managed to bring in a 17 inch brook trout! Just beautiful! After taking a few snapshots, he was released to live another day. It officially measured at 17 inches on the dot (a trophy) and by judgement, about 4 1/2 pounds. A fat girl!


Boy was I shaking like a leaf when taking this photo!


For the rest of the day, we caught another 8 or so browns combined. Not many bites but a very eventful day. After we checked back into the hotel for the night, I found out I got a 26 on my ACT.

Anyways, if I had been on my game, I probably would have caught way more fish but I was just not landing them. I'd hook them, but I just couldn't bring them in.

Then, this morning, we stopped under a good looking bridge and found tons of browns and brooks waiting in the shallows. So, we get under the bridge and start nailing them. From 5 inches to 13 inches, we caught plenty. It was a great end to a great trip.

Some of the creeks we fished...










Hope you enjoy. I sure did!

Grasshopper13

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I think I got all of them.....



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Chuck7

Thanks Grasshopper,
Nice looking trout. What kind are they? Brown??

Guss

Nice fish, is that a spring creek? Glad ya got out. I have been hitting it hard in the UP but with all this cold weather havent found may bugs and fewer fish. It isgoing to warm up today and things should startpoping.

chuck lucks like a mixed bag, Browns and brooks.

Osprey

Those are some good looking fish, congrats!
I have to say though, I am fairly certain that first fish is like no brookie I've ever seen.... it looks like a tiger trout to me, a cross between a brookie and a brown.. which only makes it better becasue that is a rare fish... do two seperate googleimage searches for tiger trout and brook trout... you will see the difference.

Guss

Osprey, you could be right, tock a better look at it and saw that there were no spots, also it looks likeit has a gill clip, thatpoints to the mad scientists at the DNR. The one tiger trout that I saw lookes alittle more like a brown then that.Those crazy mixes dont happen all that muchin my area (do they even happen in the wild)and the only mix the DNRplants (as far aschar go) are splake. How can a Char spawn with a true trout????

Osprey

I have never been fortunate enough to catch one in the wild, but they do ocur naturally; however, they are sterile...
I have not heard of any state dnr, or dept of fish and wildlife actually raising and stocking tigers, though some private organizations do.
I would imagine most of the tigers caught are natural...

a char can spawn with a true trout because they are not that far off... they are a part of the same family (salmonidae)they only differ inthe genus and specific epithet...

Guss

The only places I know of them to be planted are in fish ponds in Lower MI, I dont know who dose the planting. I saw one once about 10 years ago, I didnt catch it. Only reason I knew what it was was because it was a planted pond and I was told that was all that was in there.Most high-breads cant reproduce because they have an odd number of chromosomes, I wonder if that is the case here.

All in all it is a cool fish and dang good job UPhunter.

Phil from Maine

I have to agree with you folks that is not a brook trout I've caught alot of brookies and none even came close to looking like that. The clip from the gill tells me it is a stocked fish too. I'm not to sure on what kind of fish it is as we do not have tigers here. It does look simular to some of the splake that we catch here as they carry different patterns on them.