Friday's Trout

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Had a good fishing weekend, Saturday moring had around 14 SMB's on the susquehanna ranging 10-18", ordered Tons of muskie equipment Sat Night, Only have pics of the Trout i had caught with a friend friday morning/night.



Rainbows-

Brooks-

 

[fish junkie]

makes a guy wonder what it takes to legally keep trout they are nice looking fish

 

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makes a guy wonder what it takes to legally keep trout they are nice looking fish

Huge tank, Very Cold Running water.

ate one of them i gut hooked that night.

panfried with salt and chipotle tabasco. MMMMMMMMMMMM yummy.

 

[jmart.cooper]

The problem is more that you need a huge tank and lots LOTS of current and cool temps (chiller) and really clean water to keep them. They suddenly dont become worth the effort, IMO. They are awesome fish, but not so good to aquariums. Oh, and they do get really ugly when they get big, which is too bad.

They do taste good though, lol. This last weekend i caught about 40 trout out of a "gold metal" (artificial fly and lure only w/ different restrictions on what you can keep) lake near Leadville, CO. I let them all go except for one, which I had for dinner . This lake is the bomb. None of them were under 12 inches in length and the largest was a hair over 20 inches in length and weighed about 2 pounds (doesnt sound big, but its big for a trout in most rivers/lakes in CO). And it seems like they bite pretty well all day long.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

That bottom rainbow looks to be a baby steelhead.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

The problem is more that you need a huge tank and lots LOTS of current and cool temps (chiller) and really clean water to keep them. They suddenly dont become worth the effort, IMO. They are awesome fish, but not so good to aquariums. Oh, and they do get really ugly when they get big, which is too bad.

They do taste good though, lol. This last weekend i caught about 40 trout out of a "gold metal" (artificial fly and lure only w/ different restrictions on what you can keep) lake near Leadville, CO. I let them all go except for one, which I had for dinner . This lake is the bomb. None of them were under 12 inches in length and the largest was a hair over 20 inches in length and weighed about 2 pounds (doesnt sound big, but its big for a trout in most rivers/lakes in CO). And it seems like they bite pretty well all day long.

20 inchs and only 2 pounds must have been starving

 

[jmart.cooper]

well i guessed at the 2 lbs, lol. I did measure it w/ tape measure on my float tube. It wasnt starving, but it was by no means fat. I really think thats a fair weight for a trout that size, they really dont weigh very much.

 

[jmart.cooper]

well I found a weight calculator and it says it should have weighed 3.6 lbs, so maybe I was way off, lol. I dont typically weight fish. Its more like, pull them in, unhook them throw them back. They usually aren't out of the water for more than about a minute, two at the most. I dont even usually measure them, but this one was significantly larger than the rest of the ones I caught. Tragically I only have one crappy cell phone pic of it that my brother took.

 

[jmart.cooper]

Sorry about hijacking your thread, I just got home about 2 hours ago and am on a fishing high, lol.

Those are some great trout. Trout are the best (I say that having only fished for other things on a few occasions, lol)

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

well I found a weight calculator and it says it should have weighed 3.6 lbs, so maybe I was way off, lol. I dont typically weight fish. Its more like, pull them in, unhook them throw them back. They usually aren't out of the water for more than about a minute, two at the most. I dont even usually measure them, but this one was significantly larger than the rest of the ones I caught. Tragically I only have one crappy cell phone pic of it that my brother took.

that sounds like a better weight