SHOW YOUR FAVORITE CATCH ON THE FLY

[Jkfisher84]

this is already turning out to be a great thread

[FlyJester]

Man those are nice fish.

Job well done.

Thanks, if you enjoyed those here are a few more....










....and this is one of the places I go to catch these beauties....small water...

[Hafwit]

I put up a sailfish to be different, but I like to catch trout too. Here are some of mine. A brown trout on Hot Creek, CA; a golden trout on Laurel Creek, CA; and a rainbow trout caught with a micro rod and reel on Sherwin Creek, CA

[FlyJester]

^^^ I'm jealous of the Goldy, we have them spread out in the High Uinta's here in Utah, but for some reason I just can't bring one to hand.

[Jkfisher84]

whoa thats a small reel and rod. Never seen that before. nice catch

[Hafwit]

With the reduction in funding to fish hatcheries in CA, there have been some interesting developments. Other than for a reduction in stocking, the focus is now on pure-bred trout and they have ramped up the efforts to reduce hybridization. Many of the golden trout we see now are actually golden-rainbow hybrids. Getting to the pure goldens often requires going to waters that have never had rainbow trout introduced--thus these are typically in the smaller streams in more remote locations. We used to catch a number of Eastern Brook Trout in the backcountry too, but I think they have mostly eliminated stocking these.

The micro rod and reel is quite fun to use--I caught a 13 inch brown using it that felt like a tuna.

[Flagster]

I am glad to see the efforts switch from stocked to preserving the native pure fisheries...would much rather catch a 8 inch native fish than a stocked hog...
That being said here is a pic from Lees Ferry AZ...small rainbow...while now a native fishery still a stocked lineage...

[XJBANKER]

Just getting started in fishing but got 100lbs worth of fillaid fish mostly from a fly rod in Alaska last month. I think I'm hooked.

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[DreamingOfExpeditions]

Lets breathe some life into this thread.

A beautiful native and wild brook trout from right here in NJ

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A nice wild 'bow from the Housy in CT

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For those that are reading this thread but don't know:
Brook trout are native to the east coast, rainbows to the pacific drainage west coast, and brown trout to europe ( with ours being most likely Germany). They may be wild, holdover or stocked.

For a really interesting read on it check out "An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World"

[Flagster]

Great book!!