Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

From a few years ago. I just found the pictures. She was about 20 lbs, he was a bit less. Both released immediately.

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

Wow really nice fish

Fish Dancer Loc: Guntersville, Alabama

Really nice fish and pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Lee626 Loc: Brick NJ [ near the Jersey shore ]

Awesome fish, must of put up a heck of a fight on a fly rod

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Seemed like weeks !!

Doug Lemmon Loc: Rochester Mills, PA

Awesome Congrats!!

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

Nice fish Big Dog. Where were you fishing

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Connetquot River State Park, Long Island, New York. It was a few years ago.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Wow those are beautiful fish Big Dog, and from the Island none the less. I'm impressed. Do you still fly fish?

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Sure do. The river there is strictly fly fishing only with barbless hooks. I collected enough flys to last me the rest of my life, a few thousand!!

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Do you remember what you caught em on? Very nice. Thanks for posting the pics.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Oh, big dog, you lucky devil, you must have caught them on the same day, you have the same t-shirt on, Those are two fish of a life time. Is there more to the story?

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Oh there is SO MUCH MORE to the story !!
Okay, truth be told!!
Both these trout were caught in a seining net. Every Sunday my volunteer and I would net up a couple hundred trout from one of the rearing ponds at the hatchery, put them into live cars( floating boxes with screens in the bottom), and walk down stream, releasing trout along the half mile of river.
This big female I would take all the way down stream to release and every Sunday she would be back in the hatchery pond.
One of the regular fishermen was also an excellent photographer so we staged the photo.
Now in all truth both these fish were just a couple of Many big trout I stocked in the river. In fact I picked up one male brown trout that easily went 25 lbs. I slipped my hand under its belly, circled its tail with the other hand and lifted it up so the son of the president of the local chapter of Trout Unlimited could see it.
Just seeing so many trout this big was an experience never to be forgotten, many of them were almost like pets, like Rambo the Rainbow a 20 plus pound rainbow trout that would wait for me every morning when I would ‘feed the river’. One spot where I would feed would have over a dozen of these leviathans waiting for me.
Yeah, it was a fun job for sure !

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

HAHAHAHA. You had me. That was good.

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

I could not tell a lie, especially about such beautiful fish.!!!