Duschee Creek, Minnesota "MONSTER"

[spinner1]

This trout was caught opening day on Duschee Creek right in Lanesboro. Unofficially 30? and 12lbs. Caught on a red worm. Per Steve Koltz Fisheries Manager for the area...it is a native and not a hatchery fish. Trout was kept and angler plans on mounting it.

[FishnDave]

Wow, MONSTER indeed!!! That's a beauty of a fish! Look at the jaws on that beast!!!

[spinner1]

i called the fisheries manager there because at first i thought escaped brooder.
Steve the head guy there says no brood stock over 24 inches there ever and
when they rotate them they plant them way far away.

[Chicago Flyfisherman]

I wouldn't have kept that fish. Picture and replica is really all that's needed. A beaut to be sure... but not to kill in my opinion (and it's only my opinion).

Fabulous fish.

[spinner1]

i personally would have kept it.
That fish is a carnivore and a cannibal.
It eats other trout and has eaten numerous.
When trout get that old their seeds have been planted for
almost a decade and it more than likely is shooting
blanks nowadays. That is a trout of a lifetime and
I will NOT fault anyone for taking a trout in that condition.

[huntnmuleys]

i agree, beautiful fish, and id have kept it! pretty rare i keep any of em, minus some small brookies to eat, but im sure that one would be good. nice fish!!

[spinner1]

I am going to sound jealous here but...
sorry going to say it anyway..
I have caught many big browns in my life.
NONE looked like this one.
The only ones with such a distorted head I have ever seen
have been ones that were raised in a private pond and over fed
Len "jealous" Harris

[EdD]

Len,
Please help me out, here. I thought that over-fed fish had small heads and big bodies and hungry, (presumably) native fish were all head and tail with relativedly small bodies. I am not looking to argue, you know far more than I do. But I am a bit confused.

Thanks,
Ed

[spinner1]

i have a friend that is a taxidermist and he has a large pond. He feeds the trout 3 times daily and the brooks and browns are monstrous sized. Every single male fish in that pond has enormous heads and fat bodies. This where I come up with my claim it looks like a pond fish.