Fish I caught today

jimdeere

The first hole I stopped at, the first cast. I thought she would break off. I had just put new 4 lb. test line on last night.
I was going to release her but she had swallowed the hook and I was afraid she’d die, anyway. 23-1/2”.

William81

Nice Rainbow !!!!!!!

select-fire

Tasty

notnow

What did it hit on?  A few times I've caught bass on my first cast. What that did was mess up my rythym  and timing for a while. Like getting startled when I want to be calm. Nice fish though. Bet that 4# got a work out.

JimmyJack

Thats a dandy,  when they get that big I have to some them.   Course I dont get to smoke one very often anymore.

JimmyJack

Smoke them big fingers lol

montanajoe

Heck yeah !!!

Brookwood

Now THAT is the "stock market" I play in!!    Nice fish Jim and thanks for sharing it and your story with us!

badchris

Good catch!

Don McManus

JimmyJack said:

Thats a dandy,  when they get that big I have to some them.   Course I dont get to smoke one very often anymore.

This earl in the year, i would think that one will pan-fry up wonderfully.

Had a creek running through our place growing up, and spring rainbows always tasted great, regardless of their size.

jimdeere

These are stocked trout. I don’t care for the taste. I usually catch and release. 

When I hooked her, she tried to go upstream. If she’d gotten downstream, that 4 lb test line wouldn’t have held.

Don McManus

Never tasted stocked trout, jimdeere.  Our little creek was never stocked, and the biggest I ever pulled out was probably around 20".   Of course that was 50 years ago, and it is highly possible the memory has added an inch or two.  Fish that big always tasted good in the cold water of spring and early summer, but became soft and gamey as the water temperature increased.  With the exception of one summer when food was a wee bit scarce, we usually did not fish after the end of June.

We did not catch and release, but were I to comment on that, I may get labeled 'Vegan PETA Member' again, and I am unsure if my fragile ego could handle it. 

SCOUT5

Nice fish.  My experience is spring fish generally taste better than fish caught latter in the summer and best fish of all are caught thru the ice.   But then maybe that's because fresh fish in the winter are a treat.

Brookwood

The fast running  small trout streams around here in northern lower Michigan always provide good tasting fish during the hot summer months.  It is my go to after the lakes warm up mid summer.  Most often the sizes are in the "keeper" 8-12" range but occasionally I catch a big one.

My mom's folks were English and I was brought up eating a Devonshire English breakfast quite a bit.  A pan fried trout dusted with flour, salt, pepper in hot butter!   MMM  MMMM  GOOOOOD! 

jimdeere

I got a couple of nice filets out of her. I’ve never seen stocked trout that salmon color. Most are a dirty white colored flesh.

kimi

Nice fish, indeed!  That color is due to it being a hybrid as per what a biologist told me long ago.  BTW, that must have been a whale of a good fight!

Brookwood

I have always found Brook Trout to have that deep salmon pink flesh color.