Workers at an English fish farm started noticing that they were missing a bunch of trout from their holding ponds…turns out the “Great Fish Escape” was on! Noted wildlife photographer Dennis Bright caught the little buggers in action:
I went to the UK to try to interview some of the trout that were still in the pond. On the condition that they remain anonymous, I’ve obtained (with the help of a couple jars of Power Bait and a cup of mini crawlers) the secret documents that the trout have been using and now, I’ll share them with you here:
New Idaho State Record Brown Trout
Well, it seems as if the big trout of Idaho have been on the snap lately. Just take a look at these two bruisers:
First off, feast your eyes on this salmon-sized hook jaw, which is the new ID state record, 27.3-pound brown trout taken by Wes Case of Ashton in Ashton Reservoir.
I’m not sure who was happier about the catch, Wes…or the kokanee population of Ashton Reservoir!
Then, in the Boise River earlier this month:
A potential Idaho state record rainbow (estimated at 23 pounds) was gutted before it was weighed.
DOOOOOOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The beast was 30 inches long with a 25-inch girth…and could still weigh more than the current record of 19 pounds.
It was hooked by a 16-year old kid drifting a crawler in the Boise River below Lucky Peak Dam.
But enough of my yappin’ — let’s let Ol’ Eagle Eyes, who runs the Idaho Fishin Times blog, tell you the whole story.
You can get the full skinny at his blog on these two fish and a bunch of other cool information on the entire Idaho fishing scene. Check it out!
More thoughts on the Prospect Island Fish Kill
Okay, so regarding the whole Prospect Island fish kill mess, the good news is this:
Thanks to the efforts of everybody who came out Dec. 1-3, over 1,800 striped bass and another several thousand other fish of various kinds are back swimming in the Delta right now, saved from certain death. The fish were rescued from Prospect, where they’d been stranded by the Bureau of Reclamation when it fixed a broken levee and pumped the water off the island.
But the bad news is this: we still have tens of thousands of dead fish like this 18 pounder that I found hanging from a tree…kind of says it all, doesn’t it? The headline could be: California Fisheries…Hung Out to Dry by our Government.
Oregon Flood…Worst since 1964
In case you haven’t been watching the news lately, northern Oregon got absolutely slammed by a huge storm over the weekend, causing massive flooding in many areas. Tillamook, OR was one of the hardest hit.
Rivers went from low to deadly in mere hours. Take the Wilson River, for example. Check out the graph — the river went from about 1,500 cfs to 35,000 cfs almost overnight on Dec. 2 and early Dec. 3. The flooding has been called the worst since the infamous 1964 flood — the biggest since they’ve been keeping track of such things.
Dave and his Fat Chicks!
You’d have to go to the Kenai or Skeena rivers to find bigger hen Chinook salmon than these two caught by David Pitts of www.salmonandsteelhead.com on the Chetco River last week.
The upper fish is a massive, 45-pound hatchery hen (note the missing adipose fin) Pitts caught in the Willow Run on a chartreuse/green Sledge Hammer by Mack’s Lures, tipped with a red label plug-cut herring.
The big native girl on the bottom weighed a “mere” 40.7 pounds and was taken on a chrome body/chartreuse head No. 15 Pro Troll StingFish in an area known as Tamba. The really cool thing about it is, Dave released ’em both. Way to go!
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