Fish Freaks, CO Brown record smashed.

It helps to be good. But being downright lucky is even better.

Ask John Hostetter. The 45-year-old president of Wells Fargo Bank in Pagosa Springs will be the first to tell you.

Fishing by himself for pike on May 8 at Vallecito, Hostetter hooked what he thought was wood with his Rattlin' Rogue around 2 p.m.

It wasn't.

"I thought I had snagged a log. When I looked down and saw my rod, it was bent like a horseshoe," Hostetter recalled. "So, I put my boat in neutral to grab the fishing pole from the rod holder, and that's when I saw it had taken most of my line and the log was moving."

What Hostetter hooked was instead a 22-pound, 37-inch brown trout.

http://www.durangoherald.com/outdoor...ut040521_2.jpg

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Damn monster, a pike I've seen that size, but a brown is something else, that thing is giant.

I could't get the article to load. Catch and release or dinner?

Mount, said he normally releases, but keeping this one, try this link, you'll have to click on the article.

http://www.durangoherald.com/index_outdoors.asp

Would have been cool to catch a monster and let him live.

yeah it's too bad he killed it, should've snapped some pics and sent it back.

Time to dismount.

"I'm responsible. I release most of the fish I catch. I eat a few, but I want to be companions forever with this one."

I've got no problem with him keeping this fish.

a state record fish needs to go on the wall IMO, sorry folks.

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Originally posted by xboat
a state record fish needs to go on the wall IMO, sorry folks.

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yep

If he was fishing by himself, who took the photo?

somebody named courtesy, I guess.

May I just say that I have rarely been so baffled by a thread topic as I was by this one. I'm sitting here thinking that Phish listeners are also into some guy named C.O. Brown, and one of his LPs got broken.

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Originally posted by Alex P. Keaton
...and one of his LPs got broken.

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That's what I'm saying. He should return it.


PS. Jerky Boys streaming mp3 all day -> http://205.188.234.35:8086/

:eek: HOLY CRAP!! :eek:

Too bad he caught it with a spinner. Flyrod w/Elkshair Caddis woulda been waaaay cooler, IMHO. Could you imagine that monster hitting a dry fly? I would have crapped my pants!

any idea how many caddis that monster would have to eat to get by for a day?

that thing ate the fish that eat the caddis.

nice fish