Home Forums Fishing Freshwater First trout of the season.

Those are ugly trout!


I'm glad you killed them.

A fish from yesterday....

My first fish ever on a fly rod was this 24" rainbow trout I caught last year.

Tom,

What are you using for a lure?

Panther Martin- PMRG-size 4

Just bought a few. We will down to the Guadalupe next week.

pal

Congratulations are in order for that catch.

Even in the net I can see the beautiful coloration on that fish.

Louis--thank you. It broke my heart to release him. I would have had him mounted. But my friend, Wally, wouldn't hear of it. Fortunately Wally did a good job with his cell phone camera.

Later in that trip he also got a couple good shots of me on a 26" carp that fought me for over 1/2-hour on the same 5wt.

If you got good pics and measurements theres umpteen places out there that will do fish reproduction mounts. Got one done for Ingwewife and Id never do a real mount again....


The brown trout on the wall, if this pic shows it OK...

I have a couple of skin mounts: a 32-1/2 lb salmon (that got me in the Tyee Club, decades ago) and a dorado. But a fiberglass fish replica would have no more value to me than any plastic-ware purchased at K-Mart. Though I realize some are very expertly done.

Because it was such a grand trout, and my first ever fish on a fly, I badly wanted to have it mounted.

I released a 25 inch Brown and a 27" Smallie in the past and do not regret either release. In fact I look back at both releases as some of my greatest days of fishing

Plenty of small fish to eat and the memories of those two fish will be with me til my dying day.

The Brownie was in the late 70s and the Smallie in the 90s and I still have movies of both days embedded in my brain.

Really pretty spawning Brookie and smaller spawning Brownie the day of the biggie and they are right up there in the brain vid. Surprising what a aught Mepps will get ya.

I have mentioned this before, but am always amazed how much of the scenic vista Ingwe captures in the background of his "fishing spots". <VBG>

Watch future pics and check the backgrounds to see if you recognize any of them!



Snork!