http://www.trophytroutguide.com/articles/world_record_rainbow_trout.htm

LzyFsh

wow that thing is stupid huge

Saw that earlier today. That pig looks like it's been eating trout :P

For a real big trout check these bad boys from Mongolia out.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071114-taimen-mongolia.html

MT

Looks like a freaking salmon; a BIG freaking salmon! And on 6# test too!

Buzzfish

I remember seeing that a while back along with reading about those brothers. Crazy. I personally like the beauty of the WR before that...looked more like what a trout/steelhead should look like!

Those Taimen are crazy big. I used to look through those fly fishing catalogs dreaming of going to Mongolia to catch one of those big boyz.

Speaking of trout...anybody fly fish for them here?

Todd
http://www.bassanglerprofiles.com/toddiwamoto.htm

I do, once or twice a year. Except last year.

LzyFsh

I try to get the dust off the ole fly rod now and then. Not as much as I used to though.

I keep talking about it and one of these days I want to get a bunch of kick boaters to make a trip to Montana for some trouts.

My dad lives in Stevensville MT in the Bitteroot valley, about 15 minutes from some awesome water and has 2 cabins in Montana also. One up the east fork of the Bitteroot River and another near Dillon and the Beaverhead River. Lots of good water to fish and some macho trout too!

If anyone likes top water bassin then a big grasshopper fly plopped next to an undercut bank on a hot summertime afternoon would be right up your alley :7


MT

I can't fly fish; no sense of rhythm....I gave my fly rod to SwampBro who has an excellent sense of rhythm!

Buzzfish

Sometimes the fish don't care if you can actually fly fish or not. When the grasshopper bite is on or a good stone fly hatch is happening all you have to do is get your fly in the water close to a good spot.

I'll tell you this, I don't look pretty flailing away with a fly rod in my hand but I can get the fly where it needs to be sometimes.

Patrick McManus wrote a damn funny story (lots of them actually) about fly fisherman looking thoughtful and bemused while on the river. It covers up the fact that they don't know how to fly fish. Ya need to get a pipe to smoke though. All fly fisherman smoke pipes while looking thoughtful and bemused ;)

MT