13 inch Monster

[BIG MAC]

Nothing like the surprise of finding a big brown in that little speck stream!
Just put a similar speck into the freezer until I get a matching one so I can cook them together. One of the joys of a wife who has developed a taste for trout in the past few years.....if I only cook one I just get to pick the bones.

Pat we had a feed of 4 of them on Saturday and you'd think a cat ate them, not a speck ( pardon the pun ) left on the bones or on the plates, , wife loves them ,

[ldub]

The ones with the nice orange meat are the tastiest. It's nice to get a bigger one with a substantial amount of meat on him. The wife and kids still aren't convinced they are the best snack going, I love getting their attention just before I chow down the crispy tail fin lol. I better stop I'am getting hungry. Most the brown water up this way doesn't open till the end of may.

[intothedeep]

You're right about the hard to get ones in the holes idub. I was once looking off a bridge at a pool below and a land owner was throwing large stones to clear his land into the rushes and bog some 20 feet up the River. Anyhow these large Browns started streaming into the pool from up stream and they were huge. 2-4 lbs Browns. They were living in rushes and weed maps. Almost impossible to catch in there... I've only got 1lb Browns biggest out of that creek.
nice eating speckle!

[greenpark]

Very nice Spec Sir!