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Salmon Fly hysteria
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Posts: 271 07/02/2009 11:15 |
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Posts: 202 07/02/2009 12:11 |
Wow what a fish!! Truly a shame he killed it. Very sad those genes aren't going to continue to be passed on.
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Posts: 167 07/02/2009 13:52 |
Nice fish.
That fish is probably near the end of it's life span, and I guarantee the genetics have been passed along... that dude was king or queen of it's stretch of river. There's probably one of it's offspring that has taken over the "best lie". The mortality of small fish is probably a lot less at the moment as this one is no longer making dinner of the slow ones! |
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pittendrigh |
Giant browns and life span | #3 | ||
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Posts: 272 07/02/2009 14:30 |
roycestearns wrote:Yes, Dick Oswald (the local FWP biologist up that way) said (about this fish) that it must have been close to 10 years old. And that browns almost never live longer than that. So this one was near the end of its lifespan regardless. I caught a 27" brown trout in Montana's Nelson spring creek one March. I saw the fish--saw his head poking out of a weed bed. I drifted a streamer down toward him. He swam out of they way a dozen times. I could see (by the head only) it was a giant. I bent the barb down and tried to snag the fish (ok, I'm a lowly curr, I admit it). But that annoyed the fish and he bit. I brought him to the net quickly. He was near death anyway....so skinny you could have put him a rod tube. But he was a full 27" long. I ran upstream with the fish hanging half out of my net. I dipped him the water numerous times to keep him alive. I wanted to show my dad (who is now gone). Colin was netting a 15" rainbow. He thought I was running up to see his fish. He held it up with a big grin. So countered by holding up the 27" brown. My dad stumbled and almost lost his footing. |
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Posts: 814 07/14/2009 11:35 |
You drifted a fly by him a few times and he didn't take so you snagged him????
WOW,,,,just WOW!!!!!
Obsessed Salmon Chaser since 1988!!
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pittendrigh |
Not exactly what I said | #5 | ||
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Posts: 277 07/14/2009 12:59 |
It was 20 years ago. Not sure I really remember exactly what happened. I drifted a fly by that fish two or three
times and he ignored it. I could see his snout. I drifted it right down there again and jerked the fly instead of drifting it. He bit it. I didn't snag him. He ate the fly. He had no fight what so ever. After showing my dad the fish we stuffed some roast beef in his gullet and let him go. I've often thought, since then, maybe we should carry fish pellets around, and feed the fish as we let them go. I don't think that one lived no matter what. He was 27" long and thinner than my wrist. |
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Posts: 1653 07/15/2009 18:29 |
That 37" salmon would make a nice meal for a 44" Lake Superior Coho.......
 Even a largish Lake Superior Coaster might look at it as a meal.
Last Edited By: DrLogik 07/15/2009 18:39.
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