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kweber · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:23 am Post subject: biggest trout?

chime in w/yalls best
24 for me so far and I retired, so maybe more salt water time
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ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:37 am Post subject:

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

29"
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CaptinAcademy · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:57 am Post subject:

I think about 26.5
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OldSalty · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:27 am Post subject:

30" PINS - released. caught on live whiting. I know there's bigger ones out there somewhere in the surf.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:37 am Post subject:

27" slope of Green island Flounder hole.
I long-distance released two 30+ inchers in my life, and I'm not done yet.
We had a November week at S. Padre with a trout over 25" every day, and most of those were fly rod.
Our Arroyo trip a few weeks ago, every limit had a male over 20"
One Dos Rios lodge guest shuttling back said he got a 32" on the far side of the arroyo.

BayFly · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 12:03 pm Post subject:

28.5" on the South shore of Baffin Bay during the spring 18 years ago, while fishing with friends from Dallas. I caught the only fish of the day! However, once we knew where they were everyone got into the act the next morning!

HungerBuster · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

31.5" 9 pounds. And I ate it.
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speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

Back in the day, 50's thru the mid 70's no one paid attention to trout lengths.
When you talked to fishermen they bragged about their trout by how much they weighted or how big the filets were. Ha!
From what I can remember lengths didn't come into the bragging conversation until the late '70s and '80s.
I can remember my first one over 10lbs. I was 7 and it was caught with my grandfather off Sulpher Road. At the time you could drive out there, all the way to the end. It ate a pin-fish while I was reeling it in.
Over the years I've caught numbers big trout 8 - 10lbs but didn't start measuring them until the 80's.
I do remember catching one off Bob Hall pier while tarpon fishing. It got measured by Mike Sowden and measured 35"+. This was in the late '60s.
we ate it. Ha!
After we started measuring them in the'80s the biggest I've caught from the Laguna was 32.5" but I couldn't tell you how many 30"s I've caught.

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ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 4:15 pm Post subject:

What was really unique about mine was it was back in the 90s when we had a couple years of brown tide in the Laguna. I was using live mullet under a cork. I was fishing just south of PITA along the King ranch shoreline. I made a cast and as my mullet was just ready to hit the water this big yellow mouth comes out of the water and grabs it in the air sucks it down and takes off with it. The fish never hit the water before the trout grabbed it. Talk about heart pounding.

hickroots07 · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 4:29 pm Post subject:

OldSalty · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:40 pm Post subject:

I love to fight a large speck, but I put them all back in the water. I will not eat the big ones. I don't like digging out the spaghetti worms imbedded in most of them. I prefer a young speck like 15 to 17 inches. Not so many worms and they just taste better. Years ago in the 70's, 80's, and 90's we would catch tons of schoolies under the lights late at night on the Bob Hall pier using speck rigs. There were always the big ones there, but they wanted bigger baits like pinfish and whiting. Our freezer was always full of filets. Fond memories that will be repeated soon.

Southeast Of Disorder · Horse Mullet Joined: 31 Oct 2019 Posts: 241

My best was a 32 1/4 " caught near Sunday House. We were slamming the flounder from there to Rocky Slough when she hit on a shrimp that we had pushed up. She went over 11 pounds on a rusty scale back at the cabin. A few 28 " - 31 " from Baffin around Kleberg Point and Black Bluff.

Stoner150 · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:30 am Post subject: biggest trout

29.5 in Conn brown harbor years ago
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saltyhook · Horse Mullet Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 141

Mine ( in my memory this century ) was in 2002 as tropical storm Lillian was approaching the surf . Rafts of finger mullet were in close . She was a heavy 27" spitting up mullet on landing .
As oldsalt said in the 50's and 60s we caught so many we didn't measure .
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