Sk8man

Yeah we also try to keep the net away from Bob most of the time....too dangerous with it (dangerous to self and others) Thanks.

:smile: Good one!

Those fish were driving me nuts yesterday and today trying to tell what they were ....nothing like curiosity yes on the pickerel Mike ...and I used to get some real hog pike through the ice near Canoga way back when...those pickerel have been prevalent there though...even back in the late fifties when my folks rented a cottage summers near the park. My dad and I used to hammer them with red and white daredevils....right off the docks and in a boat. At least you fished it bud. Les

Was sitting at home after having some coffee figured that since the wind wasn't too bad I'd give the rainbows another shot today.launched at north end about 10:30 AM and dropped a couple down at 50 and 60 with spoons and sliders with spoons and a wire rig with green/chrome Spinny and blue-green tinsel fly at 200 ft out over 100ft. Nothing for awhile but marked a bunch of fish 50-65 ft down over110 and again at 170...wouldn't hit and were modest marks so I became curious and went back through a couple times...had some follows no hits...just wanted to know what they were so I took spoons off and put different sizes of stickbaits to see if I could get them to hit...to see what they were. Each pass I got one to hit....all small lakers that were suspended within the thermocline well out of their preferred temp. OK solved that....out of there....decided to scrap one downrigger and go with a braid rig with flasher and fly blue flasher and green fly. The wire rig then fired (about 80 ft down over 234?) and ended up 5-6 lb bow released unharmed by shaking the treble out with pliers while he was still in the water and he took off. trolled for what seemed like days but was hours - one small laker and two small rainbows. Reached Cooks Point and turned around and bam the wire rig got nailed....4 lb rainbow...swallowed the treble...had hard time getting out and he "bought the farm" so I threw him in the cooler. Decided to put the Seth Greens in (3 of them)....trolled for a couple hours and only caught one small rainbow about15 inches...released unharmed. Quit at 6 PM and headed for launch ramp. While taking my boat out I noticed a kid about10 or 12 fishing in the little pond near the ramp and I said to him " Would you like a rainbow trout?" He said "Wow...sure" so I had him take my pic with the fish so he'd feel he did something for it....good day... everyone happy...also took a pic out the back of the boat as I ended up the day.

Nice job Rick....should be submitted to Guiness world records as they are very rare and extremely "wily" Les

Thanks for keeping us posted 58 Johnson.

Nice going Ed and company....sure have had those browns dialed in this season Ed

Nice fish....looks as though the bigger ones came out of the deeper water from the looks of the eyes

Good one Mark!

Admiral Byrd and I set out this morning in my boat after he got his beauty sleep (much needed by the way) looking for rainbows and browns. We took some temps in front of the pump house 70 degrees surface and 50's down 65 ft. or so. Set out tx44 with spoon leadcore with 6 colors, a wire rig a large Deeper Diver dipsey with green/chrome Spinny and white fly and a braid rig with medium dipsey with green flasher and green tinsel fly and two riggers with spoons and sliders with spoons set at 45 and 60 ft. Trolled for long time without anything happening. Tried lure changes and depth adjustments as well as distances back....nothing the whole time out with downriggers. Had good hit on Spinny and got off before we picked up the rod but it was pumping pretty good. Then one small laker on Spinny/fly combo released unharmed. A few "hits and gones" along the way on the wire rig Nothing on braid. A few hours into it we decided to start adding a Seth Green rig then two instead of the braid and a leadcore. Had a brief hit on rig jug rig checked and gone. Then the rig fired again and it looked like a small laker or something let it set and then a few minutes later it was another hit...I figured another "snake" laker so started reeling in and then something started taking line feeling heavier all the time....got down to the 3rd leader and it was a about a 4 lb bow and Bob then spotted another fish turning on its side below it and it was another bow about 5 lbs and a nice looking male with a bit of a kype. We released the first bow at the back of the boat unharmed and then Bob held up the 5 pounder for a pic before release and the pic below is what happened next....(the fish survived and took off like a shot when released). Fun day with total ball busting the entire time. Nothing like a day onthe pond with the Admiral....if you survive it....

the appearance of the so-called "hump" looks more to me like a shadow effect of the photo and it isn't quite clear from the photo if the upper nose section that appears "curved" downward is actually a "kype" indicating a male either because of the photo quality. Wish also we could see the tail clearer to see if the spots are on the whole tail or just top.

Too bad the cannonball wasn't a grenade

Thanks Hermit...very interesting stuff. Too bad they can't select a non-trout stream and bombard it with pheromones, get the things in there and block it off with a wire mesh screen temporarily and treat it with lampracide.....of some type that would kill adults as well as the amoecete stage.

I'm with Tim on that one.....

Sweet! I think you'll be a "happy camper".