The New Very Large Trout Lovers Thread

Bright sockeyes! Many people say those Copper River sockeyes are the best tasting of them all.

Looks like the sockeye runs in Alaska are huge this year, unlike the chinook.

According to the ADFG website, on July 17, their fish counting weir recorded 191,000 returning sockeyes that swam from the ocean up into the lower Kenai River in a single day!

This seems to be the biggest golden I’ve been able to find so far 

Cayson M wrote:

This seems to be the biggest golden I’ve been able to find so far 

That is one beautiful fish…

I don’t know much about goldens…. Are the Cutthroats? Rainbows? Totally separate species?  The genetics of trout in the wester North America is confusing at best.

ed ” I have had the Pennsylvania Fish Commission’s ‘Palamino Trout’ experience….” e

ed esmond wrote:

That is one beautiful fish…

I don’t know much about goldens…. Are the Cutthroats? Rainbows? Totally separate species?  The genetics of trout in the wester North America is confusing at best.

ed ” I have had the Pennsylvania Fish Commission’s ‘Palamino Trout’ experience….” e

I believe they’re a sub species of rainbow but I may be wrong. 

Cayson M wrote:

I believe they’re a sub species of rainbow but I may be wrong. 

You are correct. 

Had an amazing weekend above 11k ft in Colorado. My gf also caught her first trout of similar size on this trip, casting my 4wt. Oh yeah we did some climbing too  

86 miles of Alaskan funzies this past 3 days

Slab o silver 

Fished the Dana Fork of the Tuolumne on my way back from Hot Creek.  I caught my first ever brook trout, and managed to catch a rainbow and a brown as well (a grand slam I believe?).  All on dries, all Tenkara too!

It was super fun, all of the fish were in about 1' of water or less.  I didn't have that much time out there but, I wish I could have kept fishing.  

Reese Stanley wrote:

Fished the Dana Fork of the Tuolumne on my way back from Hot Creek.  I caught my first ever brook trout, and managed to catch a rainbow and a brown as well (a grand slam I believe?).  All on dries, all Tenkara too!

It was super fun, all of the fish were in about 1' of water or less.  I didn't have that much time out there but, I wish I could have kept fishing.  

Need a golden for the slam.

Dana frok, what a dream boat

Jabroni McChufferson wrote:

Need a golden for the slam.

Dana frok, what a dream boat

DARN.  Well, I better get after it.  The Dana Fork was exceptional, I’d highly recommend giving it a whirl.

Just got back from a couple weeks in Alaska. Blessed with lots of sunny days and some truly incredible fishing.

Alaskan rainbows. Caught all these beauties on the same day!

Wow Bob...sign me up!

Bob strikes again. Beautiful fish. Lucky with the weather is always a bonus too in Alaska.

Thanks Norm. I don't mind fishing in the rain, but fishing when it's not raining is a real treat in Alaska.

Looks like kenai? 

ZT G wrote:

Looks like kenai? 

Yep, my 20th trip to the Kenai Peninsula.

Bob Gaines wrote:

Yep, my 20th trip to the Kenai Peninsula.

Nice. Ya know the mass reports this year we’re pretty consistently doom and gloom across all salmonoids, minus humpys, but we still pulled good consistent numbers. Looks like you found similar results. 20 times, wow, that’s awesome. Do you explore much on those trips or mostly local to the peninsula?