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Sinker · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:35 pm Post subject: Ice out

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Patience my friends
http://www.upl.co/uploads/0F142AC72B7E43999EF5808B9B73AA6B15865556271586570320.jpeg

Photo taken April 10

Beautiful sunny day, almost 50 degrees, no wind, 90% of ice was gone.
I was sitting in my chair with a thermos of coffee.
I did disturb some prespawn trout. This was not the largest. But I did keep him out of the water long enough for a photo. I am a believer in releasing the big ones without ever lifting them from the water. They need to do their thing.
Sorry for the delay in posting.

Rxfire · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:48 pm Post subject:

Antici-

Sinker · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:44 pm Post subject:

Photo link and comments added
Thanx
Rob

ziacatcher · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:48 pm Post subject:

Nice Brown. hopefully it survived. Often times when you hold with the towel you take the slime off and they have a hard time surviving.

One time I was fishing in a lake in New Mexico downwind from this one guy and he was practicing catch and release. Unfortunately he would unhook the trout using a towel and then put it back in the lake. Minutes later it would just be floating by me dead.

Rxfire · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 3:53 am Post subject:

Zia-- Re-read his post. That was not the biggest. He never pulled the biggest from the water, when he released it. He did not say he released the one in the picture. Yum!

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:21 am Post subject:

Sorry about that!

Hook · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:39 am Post subject:

Beautiful fish and scenery. Thanks for sharing.

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:35 am Post subject:

That is pretty. Never been up to that section of the country. Maybe someday

Sinker · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:49 pm Post subject:

Hi Zia
I completely agree with your comment re: using a towel to handle fish and the adverse effect of removing slime. However, this fish was very strong and most wild in his flip flop action. I could not grip him with my hands tight enough without him squirting milt. So, I used a towel for no more than ten second to keep him in a position to photograph touching only his belly.
I did release this fish and he was in excellent condition when hit hit the water. But he did flip me off as he left. Very Happy

Also this is not a Brown trout but a Rainbow trout.

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:18 pm Post subject:

Glad he was able to get back in the water with vigor. I looked at that picture again and wow surprise me that's a rainbow. The rainbows we catch in New Mexico are a lot more silver than that. Awesome fish