It is still a cool picture.

Best part is the young girl got to catch it, she went to my school but is older than me. It was early nineties. Caught in deep creek lake.

Not just brookies but also browns, rainbows, cutthroats, lakers, golden etc... Maybe it is because I grew up in CO, but for me trout is where it is at and I've caught some good ones.

My biggest brookie was 19 inches long and weighed just over 3 lbs. My biggest lake trout is 29 lbs. My biggest brown is 9 lbs 10 oz. My biggest rainbow is about 8 lbs. I've caught a lot of cutts over 6 lbs with maybe 2 or 3 that would top 8. Never caught a big golden (and I'm talking about the actual golden trout from the west coast and not those fake yellow rainbows in the east) but they are the prettiest of all trout. A friend of mine caught a 16 lb splake once and that was a really cool fish and we catch a lot of rainbow/cutthroat hybrids up to 5 or 6 lbs.

I don't use bait for trout. I use either spinners, jigs or flies and I don't fish anyplace for trout that depends on stocking. Where I fish is all natural spawning. Give me wild trout in a clear mountain stream any day of the week.

yeah, our fishing is much more limited than that, anything here that holds brookies wont hold anything else. typically very small mountain runs. i would love to pull out a 19 incher lol!!

colorado sounds like the mecca, cutthroats and all that, you should take me on an elk hunt lol

yeah all of our "golden" trout are stocked and people talk about them like theyre this super rare awesome fish when in all honesty its because they dont stock that many. however most that ive seen are big so they must only release bigger holdovers. we have native browns everywhere though. you should try live crawdads i swear to you its literally a magnet, you know those deep pools? drop him in the bottom and he'll crawl all over the rocks. fishing with lures is more fun but the crawdads are deadly productive if you wanna fill the freezer.

Most the areas I fish for trout are designated flies and lures only so bait is a no go.

As to elk hunting, that may be doable. I want a sika deer. Maybe we can work a trade.

I found an old picture of a 5 lb Bass I caught when I was 28 Years Old.



Now when it stays warm, I will catch some more biggins.
I caught it in a pond beside an old water heater someone tossed in the pond.
I caught it with a light brown Rebel Frog.
I caught it with my first baitcast reel, a Shimano Bantam B-100 Mag.

Ill pm you on this

Friday April 4 a 4 lb 8 oz Bass.
The brown spt on its side is a leaf.

This is for Chuck7
 

This is for Chuck7,

Thanks Johnny