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27" 10.5 pound brown trout caught on small WTS
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flyI4
Fishizzle, I use worms but I'm looking to upgrade!
when u click the link you posted and read the full story, the second picture of the fish shows it to be a lot bigger. Someone has to know that spot where he caught it since there is a pipe/culvert that runs into the stream and would be fairly recognizable to someone who has been there before. I'm kinda curious where it came from- I have my doubts the fish is wild but the guy seems fairly credible on that post he put up and says the stream is not connected to any other stocked watershed. If that is a wild fish its a beauty for NJ
Rusty Spinner
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Not NJ. He PMed me that his buddy caught it in PA
flyI4
Fishizzle, I use worms but I'm looking to upgrade!
if u had to guess- would u say thats a wild brown or a holdover Brian? Its a tough call because the adipose fin is massive and does not look like one typical of a stocked fish. The colors of the fish though make me feel like its a holdover. Either way its a beast but if its a wild fish thats a seriously impressive catch on a stream like that.
MACFLY
Too many streams too little time
That's a great fish but I'm wondering if that creek rolls into the lehigh or the delaware possibly. Looks wild to me
Trout Nazi
And...Boom goes the dynamite.
That's a nice fish, but it either swam up from a bigger body of water, or someone put it there. A small stream like that in the North East doesn't have the biomass to grow a fish that big.
Rusty Spinner
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I can only go by what I was told by the poster (who did not catch the fish, but took the pix) which is that there was no way a stocked fish could have gotten here by swimming upstream (dams) or washed over from some stocked pond. The haters will all say stocked. I could care less, but it's one hell of a big brown for a small stream. As for the biomass, a big brown can and will eat all the other fish in a small stream, so it certainly is possible.
Trout Nazi
And...Boom goes the dynamite.
Yes, wild, stocked, whatever, it's a nice fish that was probably a blast to catch. But, Judging by the report and pictures, there were plenty of other small fish left in that stream. Come on now, they rarely ever get that big in the Delaware, where they can eat year round, and the variety and quantity of food is 20x what's in that small stream. That fish is even large by New Zealand standards, where the fish are lake run. It got by the dams during a high water event, or some wise-ass put it there, since it happened to be caught by the road. This is still the internet, do you believe everything you read on it?
golden beetle
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I read the post.on njhunter, and I sense the guy caught the fish legit, but he is being coy with the details of the location...
flyi4 is right that the culvert should be easily recognizable...
It reminds me of the storm drain in dunnfield creek that runs under route 80...
no idea where this guy is... in the post he says it is jersey, and rusty says he got a pm saying Pennsylvania...
Rusty Spinner
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He never says the fish was from NJ, just that he lives in NJ.
Rusty Spinner
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Yes, 100% of all internet posts are true
golden beetle
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You're right....
So this is a Pennsylvania fish, not New Jersey...
That certainly changes everything.
Perhaps this was the Little Juniata or Penns Creek.
I have seen fish that size in the Little J.
flyI4
Fishizzle, I use worms but I'm looking to upgrade!
I'm going to assume that if the guy posts on NJhunter- he lives somewhere close to where the nj/pa border is, and therefore the fish was likely caught in the poconos. Doesn't look like a spring creek, the area looks pretty wooded and there aren't many viable freestones in the lehigh valley so I'm going to say its not the urban/developed backdrop present on most lehigh valley streams. In likely being in the poconos- the likely sources of a fish like that are a major river with the leaders being either lehigh or delaware as Mac eluded too. There are also plenty of clubs in that region that could have stocked a fish like that and then it moved upward. I'm not saying its impossible for a fish to get that big in a small stream- but highly unlikely in a freestone stream of that size. Regardless- the sight of seeing that thing come out of the shadows and attack his spinner must have been both terrifying and awesome at the same time.
golden beetle
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The guy who posted it to njhunter referred to a number of unnamed tribs in the area.... I could see a fish of that size swimming through the storm drain and getting trapped when the water receded.
golden beetle
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hatchman
Just a lucky soul,enjoying God's gifts to us.
I used to live in Henryville PA near one of those exclusive Pocono fishing clubs and I agree about the size of some of the hogs in those sections of their private water.
striperknight
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That is one nice trout.
