Wild Tiger

[Thursthouse]

Back in early August when we had those cool temps (and couldn’t upload pictures) I took a trip to a small WTS that I’d never been to before. The river temp ranged from 67-68. I picked up several brookies on small streamers and after about an hour I sat by the river to rehydrate. While sitting watching the water I noticed one fish rising under a low over hanging bush (the power of watching the river). So I switched over to one of my new favorite flies, the Goddard Caddis, which I have to thank Sunsignarcher for forcing me to learn how to tie. After several casts I got a decent drift and the rising trout smashed the caddis imitation. As it got close I noticed it wasn’t a brookie and my heart started racing as soon as I saw what is was. I quickly netted the trout (over kill based on the size of the trout, however this was no ordinary trout). It was my first tiger trout, and a wild tiger at that! I snapped a quick couple of pictures and let her go to hopefully make another angler’s day. Since the very first picture of a tiger trout that I saw I’ve been dying to catch one and I can now cross it off my bucket list.

Goddard


Tiger 1

Tiger 2

Tiger 3

I wasn’t lying about it being on the bucket list</SPAN>


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[lightenup]

Sweet dooode....Give me a call when you go on the wild boar knife hunt......

 

[Thursthouse]

Hahaha you're in? Found a place down in Texas to do it..

 

[sunsignarcher]

Thats freagin awesome! What a cool little fish.

I'v got a truck load of those goddards on stand by, I'm gonna get back to the trout streams soon and put em to work.

LU, the tyin room should be cool enough to work in now. Did you tie one yet?

 

[CTobias]

Hahaha you're in? Found a place down in Texas to do it..

Go to Hawaii and do it. It's how they've done it there for years. My dad still has his knife from when he hunted there as a kid. He's got some sweet boar pics.

 

[golden beetle]

Never caught a wild tiger.

Congrats on a beautiful fish.

 

[Trout Guy]

Niceee catch bro!

Tigers are one in a million fish, I don't always remember all the browns/brookies I've caught. But I will always remember the three tiger trout I've netted!

 

[golden beetle]

Niceee catch bro!

Tigers are one in a million fish, I don't always remember all the browns/brookies I've caught. But I will always remember the three tiger trout I've netted!

How often do you fish the hatchery?

 

[Trout Guy]

How often do you fish the hatchery?

Three times daily, not including holidays and the days I'm giving it to your wife..

 

[Oliver10]

I am jealous. That is a great fish. You can hunt wild boar in Florida. You don't even have to use a knife you can select whatever medival weapon you want. sword | Ron's Guide Service If you had to sword hunt black bear in NJ I bet there would be no protesters.

 

[NJAngler]

They are pretty rare. They are also sterile so once they die, you won't see one again until the the same rare cross-breeding occurs. Based upon my lifetime numbers, its about one per 3500 trout caught. Even that number is high because I caught 3 in one stream on the same day which was really bizarre. Generally speaking they are mostly found in stream where one species is much more common. Lady brook trout also say that once you go brown, you don't go back. lol

 

[Rusty Spinner]

The Division just got a 2nd confirmation of a wild tiger in that same stream, Thursthouse. As you know, it was believed to have been a 100% wild brook trout stream with zero browns. Guess one got up into that trib. Beauty. I still don't have my first wild tiger.

And I'm in for the knife boar hunt, FYI. Going with a long Ruana knife my dad left me

 

[sunsignarcher]

Thurst,

Fished the goddard tonight at the Gorge. Took no time at all to hook up on a chubby little rainbow with that thing.

Super visibility, floats like a cork and the fish clobber it. Ya, Ill be stockin up on these.

 

[Thursthouse]

Rusty, it can't be the same one I caught cause I tossed him in the woods for the racoons.. I'm still amazed that a brown could breach the natural obstacles that were in between him and the brookies. Looks like we have three takers for that Boar hunt - will NEFF sponsor the trip?!?

Sunsign, I really do love the fly - find it to be great in rough water, for searching and is pretty visible - and I wouldn't be fishing it if not for you so thank you again. I know Craven said he doesn't even bother tying in the antenae, but I've had a LOT more success on the flies I've tied the antenae in on. Have you noticed any difference?

 

[sunsignarcher]

YES! I was just thinking about that this morning.

The antennae are surprisingly prominent on the water and I think they help the fly keep its head up and skate/drift better....and they just look buggy.

I fished one with and one w/o, did not catch on the one w/o.