Brown Trout

BlackRock · Apr 26, 2004

Browns are my favorite of the trout (although I haven't tackled a steelhead yet). Any other Browns fans? I've learned that big browns eat at night and eat big pieces of food.

WAmuleyHunter · Apr 26, 2004

awesome pictures, are those from WA? I love browns, but i love steelhead even more, dont catch one cause soon as you do, you will be hooked for life. Love going to Montana to catch em out of the missouri.

Garrett

polarbear · Apr 26, 2004

Whew! I am glad that you are talking about fish! For a minute there it seemed like another sh!t post! Brown trout are our friends. (but not the kind filled with corn!)
Eric

Blank · Apr 26, 2004

Browns are great, especially on light tackle (6-8# test). I've been fortunate enough to take a half dozen 30" or better from the Snake River here in Idaho Falls. Sitting here as I type on the 'puter looking at a reproduction mount I had done of a 31 1/2", 19 1/2" girth male about 16#. One of my workers got a 11# male this weekend. As fun as they are tho, steelhead still get my vote!

BlackRock · Apr 26, 2004

Those are actually Idaho fish, from the upper snake. Biggest I've caught is 7#. Those are hogs you catch, blank. Did you release the repro. fish?

wamuley, you ever catch browns in WA?

HunterHarry · Apr 26, 2004

VERY NICE!
I am a Salmon and Steelhead nut!I fish real light too.I use 10-12lb leaders for Salmon up to 50lbs!
I am achin' to catch some big trout though!
I am holding out for a 20lb steelhead and a 50lb Salmon to mount!
Those repro fish mounts are beautiful! They add a lot of color to a room.
Love those Browns!

BlackRock · Apr 27, 2004

Here's the front end of my best one. Not real big but a keeper for me. It's not a repo. I whacked him on the head.

Blank · Apr 27, 2004

Actually, the one repro is the only big fish I have killed. Others have all been released. I don't eat trout, and only take an occasional one for my father-in-law. I do love seafood, and prefer the white meat of crappie or walleye, and all my Texas friends send shrimp, oysters, and redfish. Will see if I can get a digital picture of the big one to post here.

shotgunjim · Apr 27, 2004

Browns are my favorite fish to catch, and I love to fish at night for the big cannablestic ones. but one thing is for sure they would grow even bigger if they didn't have sticks shoved in their gills and out their mouths. Eat the 14-15 inchers and let the big ones go.CATCH AND RELEASE.

NMRaptor · Apr 29, 2004

Those are some good looking fish.
-raptor

BrianID · Apr 30, 2004

Blackrock,
Great pictures.

Blank,
Not very many guys can say that they have caught a half a dozen 30"+ browns. If you can get some pictures posted that would be great. There certainly aren't as many big browns in the waters around Idaho Falls as there use to be. 11# is bigger than any brown that I have heard of from eastern idaho in the last few years.

Paul_Crawford · May 2, 2004

My biggest is a 22 incher. Weighed about 4 pounds. Caught him in the Kaweah River in the mid 70's. He's still on the wall. PC

BlackRock · May 2, 2004

Where is the Kaweah River, Paul?

Paul_Crawford · May 2, 2004

It's in CA. The southern San Joaquin Valley. Actually, I caught him in Sequouia National Park where the Marble Fork drops into the Kaweah. PC

DeerKing · May 3, 2004

Nice fishies boys, brownies are my favorite. Here's one I caught 2 years ago, almost 29 inches, 11 pounds 4 ounces.

sixgunn · May 4, 2004

Cool pics, I'm headed fishing today right after work to try and catch a few browns myself.

Paul_Crawford · May 4, 2004

Deerking, is that a pic of you and your wife in the corner of the pic you posted?

DeerKing · May 4, 2004

PC
Yep we did one of them western photo shoots a while back. Still one of my favorite photos of us. Did you think that was our every day attire?

Paul_Crawford · May 6, 2004

hehe. Naw, I was just wonderin' how a huntin' addict could have such a cute gal. hehe. We had one done in Virginia City years ago, too. PC

runner · Jun 9, 2004

This is a nice brown. I think they're one of the most beautiful trout alive. I caught this one 1/04 up by deer creek reservoir on January 1st, 2004 when the proclamation changed to be able to use bait. I caught a couple like this.

I don't go out that often, but it sure is nice to catch fish of this size.

dutch · Jun 28, 2004

I just got back from the Gunnison up the Black Canyon, simply said, that place kicks ass! Caught lots of browns, mostly juveniles 12-14 inchers but we did catch 3- two right at 18 inches and one very nice 21 incher! I was so pissed because I left my camera at work! We went up there on a last minute decision thing but in the 2 hours we were there we caught 17 fish between 2 of us and ALL of them were browns. Needless to say I'm going back very soon. ;-)

Paul_Crawford · Jun 28, 2004

Dutch, I tried to e-mail you, but I'm not sure it got through. Let me know if you get it. PC

NMRaptor · Jul 6, 2004

Hey Fellas,
I'm going up to CO to fish Eleven Mile Res and some of the nearby rivers and streams. Never been there before but heard its pretty good. Any of you guys know the area?
-Raptor

deafman · Sep 12, 2004

Browns,the most fun of all trout to catch,I'm hooked on browns,have been since 1960,my late father used to used to take me up and we would catch 3 to 5 lb brown all the time. unfornuatly that is a thing of the past,but I am a true catch and release when it comes to browns,I wish everyone was

out4elk · Sep 23, 2004

I love catching browns. In fact I just returned from Montana and I am spoiled. I have never caught that many nice browns here in Utah, I think Ut could take some lessons in fish management. We fished the Missouri, Blackfoot, Little Blackfoot, Bighole, and some river that followed I-15 South of Butte and caught nice browns in every one of them. We mostly caught fat rainbows in the Missouri but we landed a couple browns there. Hats off to MT fishing!!

crazyaboutcoues · Sep 27, 2004

How's this for a Brown trout? This freak of nature was caught in the Blue river of AZ.

I guess his facial expression says all!!

dutch · Sep 27, 2004

That is a freaking hog! Nice one.

Paul_Crawford · Sep 28, 2004

Big SOB!!!!

polarbear · Sep 28, 2004

Holy balls!!!!

Eric

Mammoth · Sep 29, 2004

Hay Crazy, is that a bullet hole behind the finn or were they able to get the arrow out on that bull?....

crazyaboutcoues · Sep 30, 2004

hardcorearcher333 · Jan 18, 2005

those are some really nice browns the the biggest brown I ever caught was a 15 incher in the eastern serras

sneakem · Feb 2, 2005

Here's a little dink brown my buddy caught in Colorado

30lbs8oz

AZtrophyhunter · Jun 1, 2005

Speaking of browns, anybody fish the white mountains of AZ? The state record brown was caught out of Reservation lake & is mounted there at Hondah casino. The thing is scary big.

dutch · Jun 2, 2005

Colorado state record caught last year, this guy was fishing for pike when he caught this hog. The state record however is for length, not weight.

What Hostetter hooked was instead a 22-pound, 37-inch brown trout. According to Bob Fisher with the Colorado Department of Wildlife, the state weight record for a brown that was released is 30 pounds, 8 ounces, set in 1988 by Alan Schneider at the Roaring Judy Ponds in Gunnison County. That fish measured 36.4 inches.