Trout Photo Gallery

[Dark Cloud]

Trout do not live in ugly places !

Congrats Jake on your trout!

[carpmanjake]

thanks guys! it was awesome! i know what im going to be doing quite a bit this summer

[Scott M]

Great job Jake. Looks like fun. A stream trout grand slam, some photo fish, some eater fish, and beautiful scenery. Congrats on a great trip.

[Odonata]

A few from this past weekend. Many nice brookies and a few "surprises". Pictures are a little large, sorry

[itchmesir]

holy hell that is a monster of a bow

[Scudly]

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holy hell that is a monster of a bow

That a bow or a steelhead? Looking good either way! Congratulations on the monster!

[Odonata]

It's a steelhead, leapt 3 feet during the battle.

[no bait nate]

nice fish jake!

holy steelhead my friend. thats an awesome fish and sounds like an exciting fight. light tackle or flyrod?

[MyFishHasRabies]

I finally have a good picture to post.

Here it is, clearwater river. 18 inches. my first time using a crankbait, caught it in a hole below a big culvert.

[waterbound]

Nice rainbow! Once you start using crankbaits you'll find yourself using them more and more. I've used Rapalas my whole life, but I never really had as much success with them as I do in trout streams. I'm a believer in trout on cranks for sure!

[Dark Cloud]

Had one of my best afternoons ever yesterday on wild rainbows. Landed 10 with the biggest going just short of 20 inches. Usually a few hook-ups and a few landed is a huge success. At first some tan caddis were hatching and I got fish on a hares ear wet, then there were on a small dark caddis later so I switched to a small black and grey emerger that they liked.

Had a nice big riff all to myself...

Most of the fish were around 13-14 inches and full of it!

[magic_minnow]

that is just awesome.

[Dark Cloud]

that is just awesome.

Yes it is! Thanks.

Im bouncing out of work early tomorrow to hit it again. We have had some rain and cold weather that probably set back the bug activity but some of the larger mayflies are due to start, which really gets the trout active!

I havent broke the 20 inch mark yet this season but im due.

[no bait nate]

finally got out today for a little after work special. tried my luck around whitewater and managed about 20 fish from 2 to 4 pm. mostly browns with a couple rainbows mixed in. one rainbow went over 17" but he's still swimming. all fish came on cranks out of fast water. kept 4 browns for the table and enjoyed a couple tonight. what a great end to a short work day.

did stop to snap one quick pic of a nice colored brown.

[goblueM]

a few assorted pics from the weekend...

[Dark Cloud]

Awesome picts Goblue!

I caught this pig earlier this week fishing night eyes on Lake Ontario. 12 pounds, and he ate a #18 rapala

Back to my normal small streams and rivers flyfishing and I got these...

[so haaad]

Nice, Dark Cloud.

[HotPocket]

23.5 rainbow my buddy got

[waterbound]

That's an impressive fish! Did it come out of a stream in the SE?

[itchmesir]

[PoorWordUsage].. that is a nice bow.. no way that was caught in a SE stream

[goblueM]

i've seen bigger rainbows out of the root

but that looks like a lake fish to me

[waterbound]

With that color too it and it's general shape, not to mention the time of year and the background, I would find it very hard to believe that's from the North Shore (looper or something), but that would be massive for the SE. A great fish no matter where it came from, though!

[grate8]

looks liek it came from the freezer

[Scudly]

Itch I see no reason why that bow could not come from se MN. Len and Dirt catch 30" bows. I know for a fact they are not brooder either. Rainbows holdover. My biggest bow in se MN is 16" however the girth of a football.

Got any photos of the fish while it was alive? Personally I think big trout don't taste good. Anything 16" or larger goes back in the drink for me these days.

[s t fanatic]

Itch I see no reason why that bow could not come from se MN. Len and Dirt catch 30" bows. I know for a fact they are not brooder either. Rainbows holdover. My biggest bow in se MN is 16" however the girth of a football.

catch or have caught? there is a major difference. by the looks of the head and fins id say its a brooder. my best guess is that it came from IA. but who knows root river and main br. ww. both have produced enough bows bigger than that.

as others have stated, thats one hell of a nice rainbow if caught out of a stream/river in our neck of the woods. brooder or not.