Colorado And A Missed Opportunity

[Andy & JoAnne]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing

[Mitch f]

Nice report! Sorry about losing the big one!

[stlfisher]

Great report and bummer on your lost fish, but sounds like a heck of battle. Sometimes with big fish like that the fight is the most exciting part especially if you get to see them a couple times. Sounds like a wild couple minutes.

Brad Pitt would have gone over those falls though...just saying. ha!

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[ozark trout fisher]

The only way I can successfully comfort myself is to think that if the fight had gone on much longer, and I'd landed him, there would be a better chance the fish wouldn't have survived the affair upon release. Just earlier in the trip, I saw another angler fight a large brown to exhaustion, then release him, and watched that fish float down the river dead moments after. If nothing else, I can speak to the fact that this fish had plenty of life left in him when the fight was over.

So that's the line of thinking I'm sticking with for now...........