Jerry H
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Thanks y’all, that’ kind of what I thought. When I first hooked it and felt it’s little wiggle I figured it was a little bluegill or something. And then when I “hauled” it in I just said “ you gotta be kidding me!” So I knew I had to get a pic. 🙂
Lets just hope we can keep the flows and temps to their liking!
Well I’m glad I’m not the only cynic. 🙂 I just saw they were upping the flows to 1600!? We have two days to go before the agreement kicks in? At those flows how long will it take to get below pool? And what are the chances of not dumping all the cold water from the lake?
Tic-toc-tic….
Thanks for reporting this Ron, I forgot all about it. I is great seeing these kids earn about the life cycle of fish, not just in the classroom but actually putting them in a river to continue their life. It will be so cool to see if any smaller than stocked browns get caught in the future.
Thank you and the kids and their parents for doing this! 18 years?! THANKS!
Well first off I am no expert on the anatomy of a trout and I am sure there are others here that are so I look forward to their perspective on this. But as long as I have been “formally” trained in trout fishing (over 4 decades now ) the rule has been not to lip a trout. The reason, as I understand it, is that a trouts jaw is not like say a bass’s jaw in that it just doesn’t open that wide. I believe you can actually break their jaw. We had a speaker at a New Braunfels Fly Fisher’s meeting on fly fishing for large bass and he referred to trout as “gnat sipping trout”! But if you think about it that is what they do. They don’t unhinge their jaw and take in something half their size.
Lip grippers are great for saltwater species with teeth but not so for trout. I hope he gets his net back and thanks for asking because I have seen another spin fisherman with one and wanted to talk to him about it. But he never got the chance use it! 🙂
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