The biggest trout you ever caught

[Pow4Brains]

My hard drive crashed and I was going through what they could save and found this pic from last summer (sorry for the small file, but it’s the only pic I got left.)

These buddies of mine borrowed MY raft to go fishing when I was stuck at work……….can you compete?
Caught on the Blue River, CO mid June 2005. Taped at 29 ¾” and bottomed out a 15 pound scale. Could be a new CO record.

[Evmo]

I released a 12 inch brown trout once...

[erica_z]

i've never fished for trout. Someday....

[Pow4Brains]

I released a 12 inch brown

Good to hear.

[cloudpeak]

Wow Until now, I thought the 7 pounder my friend and I caught in the Arctic was big. Compared with that fish, mine was just a little guy.

[seanpistol]

i believe when they get that big they're referred to as steelhead.

right?

[L7]

i believe when they get that big they're referred to as steelhead.

right?

Don't think so. I believe steelhead are a sea going trout ( or is it landlocked salmon) that are very closely related to salmon.

[Humble]

taking a picture of the one framed in my kitchen

intresting story to follow as well

[Lexi-Bell]

Boneless brown?

[L7]

[Evmo]

elusive boneless brown (seagoing)

[Pow4Brains]

Don't think so. I believe steelhead are a sea going trout ( or is it landlocked salmon) that are very closely related to salmon.

Correct, but most of the monsters round here are a strain of steelhead that now lurk in the fresh water. But, they must live/have someone create an environment that will sustain their size.

Steelhead or saltwater run fish don’t count on this thread.

Just a little more FYI on this fish, it was caught on the Jones ranch (as in Dow/Jones) when the flows are high enough to float the river. CO water laws are really lame!

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Um, yeah, let me tell you about my trout fishing experience. My family and I went backpacking in the Chugach for a little over a week.... we brought food of course, but we were hoping to catch a bit of trout at the various lakes we camped near. After our second day of unsuccessful bites on our rods we realized that we SUCK at fishing. My uncle managed to catch a whopping 7 inch trout which, when split between 4 people, is not much of a meal Good thing we brought back up supplies!

[Tippster]

That's not a trout, Pow4Brains, that's a fucking WHALE! Goddamn what a fish. I would have creamed my shorts. How long did it take them to bring it in? I'm assuming they were flyfishing - what kind of tippet... 0X? I'd need a wire to keep that thing on!

[Lexi-Bell]

Hey what did that monster eat? Bunny?

There are some Kamloops nearby that a guy had in his pond that got washed out during high water some time ago that are living wild in the river, HUGE.

How did steelies get to CO? Planted?

[Humble]

This was about 6 years ago... anyways i was fishing in Cotopaxi near Texas creek (anyone ever heard of Children of the Sun ranch?) and i found a new stream (i go fishing in CO every year) and i found out later it was a huge runoff of this ranchers lake (lake trout in a stream mean anything?)... anyways im fishing for little brookies and i drag over a maybe square foot section of deep water on the whole bend of this stream and this sucker hits, instantly snaps the line and proceeds to land on some shallow rocks near the bank.

being the redneck i am i ran to him and started just scooping him to the shore praying Lord please dont let me lose this and got lucky and had him stuffed a week later

props to Flaggstaff Taxidermy for even though he lost alot of his color, they re-did him and even recirlced his little butthole ring with pink (see pic #3)


on the wall


with a one foot ruler on him


butthole was pink when i caught it, white when i turned him over to the taxidermy, and pink when i got him back lol

[mtnbikerskierchick]

This was about 6 years ago... anyways i was fishing in Cotopaxi near Texas creek (anyone ever heard of Children of the Sun ranch?) and i found a new stream (i go fishing in CO every year) and i found out later it was a huge runoff of this ranchers lake (lake trout in a stream mean anything?)... anyways im fishing for little brookies and i drag over a maybe square foot section of deep water on the whole bend of this stream and this sucker hits, instantly snaps the line and proceeds to land on some shallow rocks near the bank.

being the redneck i am i ran to him and started just scooping him to the shore praying Lord please dont let me lose this and got lucky and had him stuffed a week later

props to Flaggstaff Taxidermy for even though he lost alot of his color, they re-did him and even recirlced his little butthole ring with pink (see pic #3)


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Whoa dude, yer pics are so big I'm getting dizzy!

[Humble]

Whoa dude, yer pics are so big I'm getting dizzy!

sorry i know, i fixed it so just refresh and they should be smaller

[mtnbikerskierchick]

sorry i know, i fixed it so just refresh and they should be smaller

Uh, they still look HUGE to me!

Are you just trying to make your fish look bigger?

[Humble]

Uh, they still look HUGE to me!

Are you just trying to make your fish look bigger?

computers hate me, i suck at the internet

fixed i think, im such a GEONG

[mtnbikerskierchick]

They look MUCH better now

Better than the error messages from Photobucket

[peeforward]

wow! cool fish. i guess i still don't understand what he is though. you said that this strain was once anadromous? does that mean they were stocked in the rivers there? or are they native? i don't know much about CO fish. either way he's super cool. i wonder how old he/she is.

biggest trout? i've never broken 30 inches but have hooked my share of them around Alaska. I've landed some really special rainbows that were a hair over 29 inches but they weren't as fat as that monster. I've seen my share of thirties and have had clients hook fish that big but landing one of those beasties still eludes me. maybe someday. anyway, thanks for the picture!

[yabyum]

got a 22 inch brown on a hopper next to the sewer treatment plant in a resort area that shall reamin unnamed the beauty of it is I got it on grand dads granger bamboo rod 63+ years old.. had the fear!!

[ak_powder_monkey]

I got a 24 inch Rainbow, I also have caught a 32 inch steelhead but that doesn't count

[Tippster]

got a 22 inch brown on a hopper next to the sewer treatment plant in a resort area that shall reamin unnamed the beauty of it is I got it on grand dads granger bamboo rod 63+ years old.. had the fear!!

Gotta love those Gold Medal trout on Gore Creek!

We used to feed them bread off the covered bridge in the spring.