Your best wild trout in 2024

[rustbeltwilds]

Awesome possibly a heron poke..love those old gator post spawn males..how long was it ???

 

[headhunting22]

Awesome possibly a heron poke..love those old gator post spawn males..how long was it ???

Didn't get a measurement, a conservative guess is 17", he was healthy - minus the chunk out of his dome

 

[TheFarBankIsAlwaysBetter]

Best Wild PA fish of the year.

 

[jrcll]

from a spring creek in montana back in sept

 

[SmittyTheSquatch]

Looked back through the year and am really glad I was able to out as much as I did.

Here are my two best from the year:

32.5 in. steelhead my first day ever targeting them

21.5 in. Rainbow out of river here in Pa after I moved here. Caught it on my 7ft 6 three weight after leaving my net in the car. 😂 I'm not sure how "wild" rainbows are considered around here though.

 

[wildtrout2]

Looked back through the year and am really glad I was able to out as much as I did.



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21.5 in. Rainbow out of river here in Pa after I moved here. Caught it on my 7ft 6 three weight after leaving my net in the car. 😂 I'm not sure how "wild" rainbows are considered around here though.

I consider them the same way I consider "wild" browns. If they're the result of natural reproduction in a stream/river, then they're wild in my book.

 

[jifigz]

Looked back through the year and am really glad I was able to out as much as I did.

Here are my two best from the year:

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32.5 in. steelhead my first day ever targeting them

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21.5 in. Rainbow out of river here in Pa after I moved here. Caught it on my 7ft 6 three weight after leaving my net in the car. 😂 I'm not sure how "wild" rainbows are considered around here though.

Just like brooks and browns, there are wild rainbows in PA and there are stocked rainbows in PA. Wild rainbows are just the rarest of the bunch to find across the state, but they exist.

 

[wbranch]

Looked back through the year and am really glad I was able to out as much as I did.

Here are my two best from the year:

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32.5 in. steelhead my first day ever targeting them

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21.5 in. Rainbow out of river here in Pa after I moved here. Caught it on my 7ft 6 three weight after leaving my net in the car. 😂 I'm not sure how "wild" rainbows are considered around here though.

Typically "wild" steelhead that big are extremely rare in PA.

 

[jifigz]

Plus, I see you're in State College. You can find plenty of wild rainbows in the Spring Creek watershed...