New personal best rainbow trout

[Band]

From a lake in BC - 11.0 lbs, 31" long.  Great fight on a fly rod taking off nearly my entire spool of backing line 4 different times after having him close to the boat.  That was fun!

[TVHunts]

 

Congrats on a tank of a trout!

[huntnphool]

 Toad!

 Douglas Ranch?

[deerhunter_98520]

Wow! Congrats!

[Band]

Nope, Sheridan Lake.  Had that fish been built like most of the really big ones it may have gone 15 lbs. or better.  For comparison sake, here is my previous best (from 2013), that went 10.1 lbs. and (if I remember correctly) about 26" long.

[huntnphool]

Nope, Sheridan Lake.  Had that fish been built like most of the really big ones it may have gone 15 lbs. or better.  For comparison sake, here is my previous best (from 2013), that went 10.1 lbs. and (if I remember correctly) about 26" long.

 Another pig

[WapitiTalk1]

Dandy! 

[WSU]

How do they taste?

[SkookumHntr]

Very nice lookin fish!!

[Band]

How do they taste?

The meat is the same deep orange as a good salmon and tests excellent.  Most of the time I smoke what I bring home from this lake and nobody who gets a taste can believe they're not salmon.  One more big fish pic.  This one from 2005 was 8.3 lb., 25" long.

[Wanttohuntmore]

Nice!  Caught trolling a streamer or nymphing?

[Shaqdiesel]

I grew up going to Sheridan Lake every summer, there's some real monsters there, this is my personal best rainbow out of there from a few years ago.

[pianoman9701]

Wow Band, that's a beauty. Lots of beauties on this thread! 

[boneaddict]

No doubt. Great fish.   I've hit a few lakes up there but never that one. 

[Band]

Nice!  Caught trolling a streamer or nymphing?

Trolling a black/pink micro leech for the big one this year.  Due to a medical issue my activity level was limited, which forced me to sit in the big boat and troll all week.  The fish are always absolutely loaded with scuds (and usually little or nothing else) but catching them on a scud pattern has proven to be difficult so trolling or casting/retreiving a leech pattern seems to work best.