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Title: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: Band on October 09, 2016, 08:06:51 PM: 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! 8)
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Post by: TVHunts on October 09, 2016, 08:12:31 PM: :yike:

Congrats on a tank of a trout!
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Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2016, 08:13:46 PM: Toad!

Douglas Ranch?
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on October 09, 2016, 08:37:12 PM: Wow! Congrats!
Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: Band on October 09, 2016, 08:38:33 PM: 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.

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Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2016, 08:40:25 PM: Quote from: Band on October 09, 2016, 08:38:33 PM
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 :tup:
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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 09, 2016, 08:42:18 PM: Dandy!
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Post by: WSU on October 09, 2016, 08:47:29 PM: How do they taste?
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Post by: SkookumHntr on October 09, 2016, 08:49:32 PM: Very nice lookin fish!!
Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: Band on October 09, 2016, 08:55:23 PM: Quote from: WSU on October 09, 2016, 08:47:29 PM
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.

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Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on October 10, 2016, 04:53:08 AM: Nice! Caught trolling a streamer or nymphing?
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Post by: Shaqdiesel on October 10, 2016, 06:55:59 AM: 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.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on October 10, 2016, 07:18:49 AM: Wow Band, that's a beauty. Lots of beauties on this thread! :yike:
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Post by: boneaddict on October 10, 2016, 07:20:17 AM: No doubt. Great fish. I've hit a few lakes up there but never that one.
Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: Band on October 10, 2016, 02:52:24 PM: Quote from: Wanttohuntmore on October 10, 2016, 04:53:08 AM
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.
Title: Re: New personal best rainbow trout
Post by: boneaddict on October 10, 2016, 04:22:54 PM: Noticed that up at Tunkwa. Took a couple on a huge scud like pattern I can't remember the name of it. I did the best with large leech pattern. Of course seeing the size of the real leeches swimming in the lake will make a believer out of you. I think in the weeds I used a sedge pattern.
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Post by: Kit Carson on October 10, 2016, 09:33:20 PM: Nice :tup: :yike:
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on October 11, 2016, 09:50:44 AM: Those are some dandies! :tup:
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Post by: Alchase on October 11, 2016, 11:30:30 AM: Love the look of a Nate in full color!
Beautiful Fish!
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Post by: ribka on October 17, 2016, 03:01:24 PM: Nice fish

I used to go up and fish Sheridan every summer

the black and maroon micro leeches always were my go to fly