Colorado New Record Brookie

[Brown71]

Saw this on another board. Maybe it’s old news but first I saw it lol. Quite an impressive fish!!

Colorado record broken

Wow, that's quite a fish! . Colorado man catches record brook trout near Lake City DENVER — A record-breaking brook trout was caught in Waterdog Lake near Lake City, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The 8-pound, 9-ounce fish was caught by Lake City resident Matt Smiley on Oct. 8. The...

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[krayfish2]

Should I tell you that brook trout are native or would you like me to save that for later?

 

[Brown71]

Now or later it’s all good, as long as it’s true!! Lol

 

[Beernut]

Should I tell you that brook trout are native or would you like me to save that for later?

LOL...actually not native to Colorado

 

[krayfish2]

LOL...actually not native to Colorado

At no point did I mention Colorado. This is a PA fly fishing forum , brook trout restoration forum. Sorry for the typo

 

[trouts]

Looks more like a splake than a brook trout to me.

 

[wildtrout2]

Don't ya just love how they hold the fish away from themselves to make it look bigger? It's big, but ugly.

 

[krayfish2]

That fish definitely never saw a meal that it didn't like.

 

[NRD]

I've done a couple DIY muzzle loader elk hunts near Lake City. Last time we talked to a couple at the trailhead who apparently had driven up from Texas to fly fish beaver dams on Cebolla Creek. Certainly made me wonder if there was something special about that area. Here I am crossing the creek with my maple wading staff : )

 

[madifly]

Looks like a Lake Trout to me.

 

[Grassrod]

Good thing he killed that brook trout since they’re an invasive species in Colorado watersheds 👌

 

[krayfish2]

Looks more like a splake than a brook trout to me.

Wait a minute, I thought Splake was the guy who lived across the hall from Ross in the TV show Friends.

 

[Grassrod]

As brook trout become ultra selective with age I assume he was caught on an unpublished secretive chironomid pattern

 

[FarmerDave]

Don't ya just love how they hold the fish away from themselves to make it look bigger? It's big, but ugly.

When you are my size, that really doesn't help.

 

[rustbeltwilds]

i think it may be a splake

 

[CRB]

does not look like a brook trout.