Excellent fish Bill!! :cool: Good to catch up on the weekend and, as always, a real pleasure :D
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Excellent fish Bill!! :cool: Good to catch up on the weekend and, as always, a real pleasure :D
Nice fish Bill! Reminds me of this one I got yesterday from this small stream I get to fish a couple of times a year. 19.3 inches nose to tail :)
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/sma...s/bigbrown.jpg
Martin
Nice trout Martin!
Makes me wish we had browns here.
Always use "soft conversion" when fishing. That is definitely a 19 1/2" fish!
Martin - That's one solid trout, and looks like a beautiful little gem flowing in the background.
That little stream you can see in the background is an exceptional stream. It holds pretty much only big fish. It hasn't been fished for many years and have in many places been left to itself, which is something you can't say for 80% of all Danish streams(!).
My theory is that since it is a very non-typical stream for this country, it is a stream that consists of nothing but long runs with shallow rocky/gravel bottom and a few deeper pools here and there. It is a stream with low habitat for bigger fish, but the places that can hold them, do. The trout are said to be particular canibalistic, and since there are so many places for the fish to spawn successfully, there's an abundance of little trout every year that the trout can grow huge on. In that sense it is not a very productive stream - in that very few small trout survive because of the big trout feeding on them.
Well, I don't know, fact is that I continue to be amazed by this stream. I, and my friend who has the access to it, have ONLY caught fish larger than 19 inches in it. And my friend fishes it quite often, and he has yet to see any small trout. It is not stocked in any places.
Since this thread is about small stream trout I will post a picture of another fish, caught last year in April:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/fabelfisken/trout.jpg
And I know it's probably controversial to some, but there's also this picture of my friend (with permission) who had to kill this monster from the stream:
http://www.holmbangsoe.dk/webimg/sma...ders_trout.jpg
My favorite of the year so far...
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...ry13111/60.jpg
Terry,Quote:
Originally Posted by terry
Your right, thats a sweet one.
Thanks,
Brk Trt
Bill, Martin,
Some fantastic fish there, especially for small streams! Bill that one of yours looks like a whopper from New Zealand!
Fabulous.
Ben
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Cluster, nice pics. Thanks