Went out in the am today.
The sun came out and was hard to even buy a bite.
It was a QUALITY day for Jim Hawley in Grant County this morning.
He landed this absolute MONSTER this morning.
Beautiful fish! There’s a lot to be said for quality over quantity, but lots of fish is not a bad thing, either.
Spectacular fish. Congrats to you and your client.
Rick
It skied right after hook up and did a body shake in air.
HUGE splash when it landed.
Beautiful fish!
How’d he ever get it landed, though, having to play it in all that GRASS?
The steelhead version…birdseye maple…beautiful net.
His net was way inadequate.
The entire length of net including handle was 20 inches.
The head might have fit in the net and thats all.
I took the photo from the place i netted it.
I am in the middle of the stream taking the photo.
Len -
NICE fish, and a very unusual but great photo.
John
Jim was sitting on the edge of the bank. I was in the middle of the stream taking the photo.
The trout stayed in the net until camera was ready and off it went in less than 3 seconds.
Per A.J. McClanes fishing encyclopedia:
Loch Leven…“a racial strain of Brown Trout…characterized by the absence of red spots and indigenous to Loch Leven in Scotland”. A further description under Scotland, previous source:…"Brown Trout from Loch Leven were widely introduced in the United States
