10/27/19 One Last Hoorah

[Seth]

Decided to pick up the trout rod instead of the bow since the weather was so nice. Got down around noon and stumbled upon a lunker in short order. It was hanging out near some weeds and setup just right. Two cast later with a 1/80oz olive micro and it bit. It didn’t put up that great of a fight. It mostly just wallowed near the surface for a few minutes before I was able to coax it to the net. It was 19” Long with a 14.5” girth and weighed 5# even on my digital scale. The park scale said 5.25# so it reads a bit heavy. This is probably the fattest trout I have ever caught.

My intentions were to let it go, but I could not get it to stay upright. I made sure to keep the fish in the water after it was netted and only held it out of the water long enough for a picture. After working it back and forth for 10 minutes with no luck, I decided to go ahead and keep it for a skin mount since it is my second heaviest trout and had good color.

Fishing wasn’t that great as I only caught another 10 trout. All but the other three that I kept were fairly small. There were quite a few nice stockers around, they just wouldn’t bite. Wacky orange trout worm caught all but a couple.

 

[fishinwrench]

Nice fat one!  👍

[fshndoug]

get don frank from dons taxidermy to do it.He is in Smithville mo