last big truck trout of year

[baldeagleflyfishing]

my brother and a couple of good fishing buds fished the East Fork of the Carsen the 1st weekend in Nov and caught numerous nice truck trout http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad127/tomrj_photos/100_2988.jpg, but I kept loosing the really large ones using 4x so I went back up on the following monday hoping to get one over 25" to hand. Well sucess, I got this beautiful 27 1/2" http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad127/tomrj_photos/100_3033.jpg in after chasing her approx 300 yrds down stream. I thought that she was a great fish to end the regular season with

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Yikes.......that is a beauty.

[Mark Kranhold]

I'd say you did! Congrats! That's a trout of a lifetime! Slabrrific!!!

[Reno Flytyer]

That sure is a small rod and reel!
RFT

[Morgan]

Nice catch! GOtta love going for an adventurous jog downstream.

[Randy Lee]

Beautiful Shots........and a river runs thru it.
A fine job,
Randy

[Bob Loblaw]

I got into a bunch of those big EC planters in August. I think the truck had been there right before me. I had a good talk with Rodger Bloom of the DFG heritage Trout Program at the Putah Creek redd cleanout last week and he told me that a lot of those big fish get down into the canyon "wild fish" section, even into Nevada, and many of the big fish that people catch down there and think are wild are actually planters.

If your fish took you on a run, I'd wager he's been in the river for some time and has learned a thing or two about survival. The fish Iw as catching were dead weight and didn't put up a fight at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRlIp2Ysm8Y&feature=plcp