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bluering
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Santa Clara, CA
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Sep 13, 2014 - 08:44am PT
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Good stuff, Delhi!
What's cool about the SF Bay Delta is that you can catch largemouths, as well as stripers, sturgeon and salmon!!!
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 13, 2014 - 09:08am PT
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Sep 13, 2014 - 09:40am PT
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For Chief.... did you ever make it up there this week? I made the slog yesterday, very grabby water, nothing too big but very colorful fish.
Nice fish Delhi.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 13, 2014 - 09:16pm PT
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Chief, I just read and say your posts on the other page. Super image of that brookie!
And shhhhh, your giving too much info:-).
Call me selfish(!) but there is a reason there still are such monsters in that lake.
I'd be happy to go up there with folks but not post where.
Though truth is that ain't the only place where there are monsters in that region...
Also, the stocking history explains why the lake just below has no fish in it.
Headed to Kashmir the end of next month to fish. The Brits stocked many rivers back in the late 1800's and those trout are as wild as they come now. Unfortunately Kashmir just got hit bad by flooding so we'll see what shape the water is in. I have yet to catch a trout here in India. One of my goals before leaving.
I have caught Masheer here (I'll have to dig up a photo). Blueballs mentions that bass are such a badass freshwater fighter (we finally agree on something!), but hooking into a Masheer can be like bass on PCP.
If you are interested:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x2614e/x2614e04.htm
and from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_trout
The native range of brown trout (S. trutta) extends from northern Norway and White Sea tributaries in Russia in the Arctic ocean to the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. The western limit of their native range is Iceland in the north Atlantic ocean while the eastern limit is in Aral Sea tributaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan.[6]
Brown trout have been widely introduced into suitable environments around the world including North and South America, Australasia, Asia, South and East Africa. Introduced brown trout have established self-sustaining, wild populations in many introduced countries.[7] The first introductions were in Australia in 1864 when 300 of 1500 brown trout eggs from the River Itchen survived a four month voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Melbourne on the sailing ship Norfolk. By 1866, 171 young brown trout were surviving in a Plenty River hatchery in Tasmania. Thirty-eight young trout were released in the river, a tributary of the River Derwent in 1866. By 1868, the Plenty River hosted a self-sustaining population of brown trout which became a brood source for continued introduction of brown trout into Australian and New Zealand rivers.[8] Successful introductions into the Natal and Cape Provinces of South Africa took place in 1890 and 1892 respectively. By 1909, brown trout were established in the mountains of Kenya. The first introductions into the Himalayas in northern India took place in 1868 and by 1900, brown trout were established in Kashmir and Madras.[9]
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Sep 14, 2014 - 10:07am PT
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Sep 14, 2014 - 10:57am PT
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Bob.... nice fish!
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Sep 23, 2014 - 03:29pm PT
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They were hitting drowned spinners, size 20.
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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If anyone would like to have a Rio- WF4F Rio Grand fly line (fished with 4 days),send me your mailing address.
It was too heavy for my rod and I don't want to see it go to waste.
Free of charge.....No Hook
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Nov 16, 2014 - 04:45pm PT
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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Nov 16, 2014 - 05:09pm PT
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whoa...nice one stimbo! Upper Owen's?
Perused your Mono Lake photo book at my dentist's office...nice work!
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Stimbo
Trad climber
Crowley Lake
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Nov 16, 2014 - 05:31pm PT
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Thanks Bob for the nice compliment. I hope you weren't at the dentist for too long.... ouch!
That guy was from Crowley, from shore. Lots of big browns, rainbows, and the odd cutty thrown in for good measure. It was a nice way to end the season.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jan 18, 2015 - 08:12am PT
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A little meat fishing yesterday at Lago General Carrera, one for carpaccio and one for the smoker.....I know, I'm going to hell.
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this just in
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Justin Ross from North Fork
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Jan 18, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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Imagine the fish we can catch in the Lake of Fire Donini.Western Sierra Brown. 8.5 lbs and 29 inches. It was the biggest brown I've seen caught firsthand, my buddy invested in a bigger net after this one.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jan 18, 2015 - 10:50am PT
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I hate fishing!
I spend all my time, all day fishing!
I spend all day fishing, all the time!
You should see the one that got away.
Really,
that's why I need to get a new camera,
To take the picture of the one that got away!
2015?? what?. . . it is twenty fifteen I have been fishing since '69.
that is a long time with out a nibble.
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ruppell
climber
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Jan 18, 2015 - 11:06am PT
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Nice fish guys.
Reading that bigger net comment reminded me of a funny story from when I was a kid. So here it is.
When I was 15 or so a buddy and I where small mouth fishing on the Delaware river. We where in his dad's 16 foot bass boat. That boat was older than I was and hadn't been used for quite some time before we managed to get use of it.
So where fishing this back section of flat water about 15' deep. Just drifting along throwing soft plastics at some nice 12-20" smallies. That stretch is about 200 yds long and has some really large boulders that provide great cover for the fish.
I notice one or two really big smallies down there so I decide to throw on a River Runt. It's kinda like a Rapala but a little shorter with a metal lip instead of plastic. With the River Runt and my 6 foot rod with 4# test I could really get some distance.
So I chuck it way out there past this very large submerged boulder. I rip super fast for a bit then stop. Rip, stop. Rip, stop. Just as it comes to the downstream side of the boulder I notice this huge shadow. I mean huge. So I do the tap, tap, tap, jerk routine. Seconds later I get hit hard. I set the line and immediately my drag start screaming.
The fish makes a hard run down stream and pulls off damn near 100 yards of line. Luckily I've got about 150. I set to work fighting this thing and trying to get a look at what it is. The suns at a really bad angle and I can't make it out. I have my buddy Joe get on the trolling motor to try and close some distance. No way in hell am I loosing this fish.
After closing the distance to about 30 yards I finally get a good look. It's a musky. A little one as far as musky go but it's big as far as ultra light tackle goes. So the fight continues. After about 15 minutes I finally start to gain the upper hand. The fish comes up to the surface and just does a back and forth. No more hard runs. Just a steady pull.
I look at Joe and ask "Do we even have a net big enough for this guy?" To my surprise he opens up the side storage box and pulls out a 5' long by 3' wide collapsible net. Man I love his dad. He readies the net as I get the fish even closer.
By now I've seen the fish long enough to know how big it really is. I've also seen where that River Runt is. I had him hooked right in the corner fo the mouth. Anywhere else and his razor sharp teeth would have cut my measly 4# test a long time ago.
About 25 minutes into it the fish is ready for the net. Joe gets the net in the water as I slowly guide the fish into it. It's over I think to myself. As the fish enters the net Joe performs a picture perfect lift. A millisecond later the fish falls through the bottom of the net. He falls through the frikking bottom. WTF? Turns out the net was made from cotton. That cotton had rotted away over the years and was completely shot. Man I hate Joes dad.
So you have to picture this in your mind. I've got a 40" musky on 4# test and now I have a net OVER the line. SO what do you do? Well I passed the rod through the net and continued the fight. Somehow the net body didn't tough the line and the net itself never got caught up on the treble hooks.
Well this musky who seconds ago was done fighting and ready for the BBQ is now completely recharged. A guess near death experiences will do that to fish. He takes off like he's headed for the delta. Joe gets back on the trolling motor and I get back to fighting the fish.
After another 15 minutes or so he's ready to give up the dream again. I get him closer to the boat and try to come up with a plan to land him. So sans net there's only one thing I can do. I hand Joe the rod and reach over the boat. Joe guides him close to my hand and I gill snatch him. I lift him into the boat as fast as I can. The fights over.
For those of you who don't know. Muskies have razor sharp gill plates. I look down it my right hand and notice blood. A lot of blood. I have a very deep cut along three of my fingers just above the first knuckle. Oh well.
Joe gets out the scale and we weigh the fish at 16.5 pounds. A tape reveals it to be just over 41" in length. I'm stoked. Then I have this crazy notion. Try and release this guy. I don't know whether it was the respect I had for him cutting me or the fact that musky aren't that common of a fish in the Delaware. But I knew I didn't want him on the BBQ.
I grabbed him by the tail and belly and lifted him over the boat. Joe got on the motor and slowly brought us to shore. There was no blood coming from his gill plate and his breathing seemed fine. I hopped over the rail and gently nursed him back and forth. After a few minutes he started to come back around. I let him go and watched him slowly swim away to a big rock about 30 feet out. I kept an eye on him for a while then hopped back in the boat to go buy a real net.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
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I know wrong fish......a good one though, off the Capitola pier this morning.
Anyone ever fish for steelhead in the San Lorenzo river? I'm thinking about giving that a go Wednesday morning. Any tips would be much appreciated! :)
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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2 thumbs up for ruppell's muskie story.
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