Big Rainbow! Trout 13 1/2 pounds

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Please don't get me wrong fellow iboaters. If I were to catch even a 5 pound rainbow I'd be taking pictures and posting all over iboats! <br />Yes this would be a BIG thing. But I'm not that good! Or Lucky! Now this guy is like JB's age + 30 years, he fishes 225 days a year! And he is a true sportsman. 2 out of the three scales listed it as 14 1/2 pounds and he and the reporter listed it as 13 1/2 pounds. Doesn't get any better than that. But in that lake maybe 10 minutes from my house they have German Browns taken every year at 19 lbs..<br />Last paragraph in the story<br />"He's been in that lake along time. (JB' age) He's a old guy" Luepton said "I can't imagine there's isnt a biggerfish swimming in American Lake <br /><br />Heh?? We have seen German Browns at 19 pounds swimming in the tankbefore being mounted! At Bills Boat House!<br /><br />BTW our state record for a rainbow is 29 1/2 pounds..Since this is the internet.. I would never take his glorey away from him.. here in WA state.. why. ?? And AND on a fly rod! This is cool! My take on it anyway! <br />Link

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Now I really feel deprived. My total last year didn't come close.

 

[neumanns]

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Rainbow's and brown's are certianly a creature of there habitat. It almost baffles me to read about these huge rainbows. Guess it's because I learned to flyfish them in New Mexico streams where anything over two pounds was lickley going to be your fish of the year, and onything over 14 inches was an excelent day. My father in law catches them in the ten pound class regularily...Some day I want to fish with him or any place else these monsters roam. Lake superior sports some nice ones but I believe the record there is in the twenty pound class.

 

[tylerin]

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Once caught a 9 lb brown out of Lake Shasta. The guy in the next camp told me to take it into DFG because it must be a record. We ate it. Can only imagine a 13 lber

 

[JB]

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To Freshwater Fishing.

 

[AK_Chappy]

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Not to cut on his glory. You fellas made me look up our state records.<br />Alaska State Fish Records <br />The largest rainbow/steelhead was 42 lbs 3 oz. My guess would be that it was a steelhead (ocean-going rainbow).<br /><br />Some of the others are just huge also, like the 459 lb halibut, or the 38 lb Northern Pike! <br /><br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[carrotsnapper]

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Some of the others are just huge also, like the 459 lb halibut,<br /><br />AK, When I was up there last summer, I caught an 89 pounder and it was all I could do to bring it in. The line was out about 500 ft. The guide shot it with a .410 gauge shotgun before he hauled it in the boat. I won the pot for the week ($150.) for the biggest halibut. What a great trip. I can't even imagine a 459 lb. monster.

 

[Link]

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AK C<br />wow now I call that fishing !<br />I would still settle for a 12 lb rainbow <br />Hey how long do you have left up there? <br />I feel the need to visit my favorite BIL

 

[AK_Chappy]

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Link,<br />I PCS out of here in June. Still don't know where I am going. <br />The bases open to me are<br />Beale, CA<br />Edwards, CA<br />Ellsworth, SD<br />Hill, UT<br />Holloman, NM<br />Kirtland, NM<br /><br />and<br />Eglin, FL<br /><br />Eglin is out as far as I am concerned. Tooooooooo hot and humid.<br />The others, I put my choices in my preferred order. I also listed McChord, WA and McGuire, NJ in the odd chance that they open up.<br />I could have also put Nellis, NV but didn't feel like living in Vegas. I like to visit there, but don't want to live there.<br /><br />Wherever I go, I will leave this state as late as possible. I need to get in some fishing before I go. <br /><br />AK Chappy