State Record Brook Trout

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State Record Brook Trout

Post by Cat Grad » Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:44 am

Every few days I go to the Montana Coffee Traders in Columbia Falls where the mounted state record brookie that came from lower Two Medicine Lake is hanging and I swear every time I look at it that it has to be a Bull Trout. I can't see any lateral lines on the back and I wonder if there's a way to do a DNA test to definitively determine whether or not it's actually a brookie. Anyway, time to get out on the water because I love the new moon phase just before sun up for decent sized fish before the drift boats and neoprene waders are out flipping feathers for bait...



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Re: State Record Brook Trout

Post by BLACKnBLUEnGOLD » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:37 am

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Have fun out on the river. I've tried my hand speargun fishing here in Indonesia and I didn't catch a dang thing. Hope you have better luck under the Big Sky.


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Re: State Record Brook Trout

Post by Cat Grad » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:57 am

BLACKnBLUEnGOLD wrote:Image

Or, in the vernacular,

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Have fun out on the river. I've tried my hand speargun fishing here in Indonesia and I didn't catch a dang thing. Hope you have better luck under the Big Sky.
I've never had the priviledge of fishing where you are but I hope to get to Tahiti this fall. As luck would have it, I was not able to go to Costa Rica with my friends a few months ago when they boated 13 Blue Marlin that averaged 500 lbs and had a half dozen break off...I have never hit a grander...aren't you in Black Marlin water? Their measure of success is a 2000 lb fish...



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State Record Brook Trout

Post by LongTimeCatFan » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:46 am

Cat Grad wrote:Every few days I go to the Montana Coffee Traders in Columbia Falls where the mounted state record brookie that came from lower Two Medicine Lake is hanging and I swear every time I look at it that it has to be a Bull Trout. I can't see any lateral lines on the back and I wonder if there's a way to do a DNA test to definitively determine whether or not it's actually a brookie. Anyway, time to get out on the water because I love the new moon phase just before sun up for decent sized fish before the drift boats and neoprene waders are out flipping feathers for bait...
It's not a Bull Trout. That lake has NO native fish as they could not get above Trick Falls. The Park stocked that lake with the fish that are in it.

Side note... I was successful in my meeting with new Supt. Mow last year to reverse the bait restrictions in those waters. :thumbup:

Also, the fish never get very big in that lake either because they just have bugs to eat. I think it came from somewhere else.



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