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taxid

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #15 on: Aug 21, 2019, 07:59 AM »

17" Brown Trout caught on a hopper I tied,last Friday. It was my birthday to boot, nice present. Made the trip to the cabin in Michigan! Hex

Beautiful brown trout!
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #16 on: Aug 21, 2019, 03:22 PM »
How about the “rubber lipped trout” lol


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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #17 on: Aug 21, 2019, 03:41 PM »
@taxid

Do you think it had more to do with genetics? ie the fish from the northern regions which reach massive size do so in part because of the shorter “growing season” and also because they have been refining their genetics over a millennia?

Or do you think it’s more to do with the overall ecology of the environments they live in? Such as the larger amounts of bugs, combined with colder seasons make for bigger fish?

I always have found this sort of stuff fascinating.

taxid

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #18 on: Aug 21, 2019, 04:59 PM »
@taxid

Do you think it had more to do with genetics? ie the fish from the northern regions which reach massive size do so in part because of the shorter “growing season” and also because they have been refining their genetics over a millennia?

Or do you think it’s more to do with the overall ecology of the environments they live in? Such as the larger amounts of bugs, combined with colder seasons make for bigger fish?

I always have found this sort of stuff fascinating.

Genetics of course play a part but some large fish, albeit not fast growing, get really large by just being around a long time and not being removed from the population like they do in heavily fished places. E.g. remote lakes in northern Canada. I also find it interesting that some of the biggest bass I have ever seen came from sterile gravel pits.

OTOH lot of people don't realize this, but being larger and getting large as fast as possible is an evolutionary advantage for survival of fish for obvious reasons. The sooner thy can outgrow forage size the less likely they will become a meal for other predatory fish and birds. The fish that have evolved to do this are more likely to pass on their genes. Then man comes along and culls the largest and fastest growing fish, most likey removing the genes that produce the fastest growers in the first place. We are our own worst enemy!

I have an old biological survey on Maxinkuckee Lake here in Indiana. (A large natural lake)  Said anglers were catching 14 inch bluegills the first couple of decades of 1900's!  Now an 11 inch is exceptional.
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taxid

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #19 on: Aug 21, 2019, 05:04 PM »
How about the “rubber lipped trout” lol



What exactly is that? A fallfish?
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #20 on: Aug 21, 2019, 08:20 PM »
Looks like a red horse sucker. Hex

taxid

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #21 on: Aug 21, 2019, 08:48 PM »
Looks like a red horse sucker. Hex

Maybe but to me the mouth isn't ventral enough for a sucker.
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #22 on: Aug 21, 2019, 11:16 PM »
What exactly is that? A fallfish?
Yes it’s a fall fish, a male I caught in spring showing full spawn colors.
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #23 on: Aug 22, 2019, 03:28 PM »
I've never heard of a "fallfish". Do we have those around here Taxi?

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #24 on: Aug 22, 2019, 03:29 PM »
I've never heard of a "fallfish". Do we have those around here Taxi?
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #25 on: Aug 22, 2019, 03:35 PM »

17" Brown Trout caught on a hopper I tied,last Friday. It was my birthday to boot, nice present. Made the trip to the cabin in Michigan! Hex

That fish had a 3" mouse in it's gut, that was about halfway digested. First mouse in one's stomach I've seen, guess I'll have to fish more mice flies! LOL Hex

taxid

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #26 on: Aug 22, 2019, 05:55 PM »
I've never heard of a "fallfish". Do we have those around here Taxi?

No we don't. They are pretty much an east coast fish. I caught my first one back in June on vacation in Maine. Looked like a big Chub. My biggest one hit a surface jitterbug while fishing for largemouth and smallmouth after dark.
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #27 on: Aug 23, 2019, 07:56 AM »
In Russia they use 8 to 10" lemmings as bait. They have a steel looking harness deal and throw them into the river and hold on! They're fishing for the largest freshwater Trout or Salmon called a Taimen. They get up to like 85 pounds and look like sharks without dorsal fins. I saw an article in my FlyFisherman Magazine a few years back. I can't remember what the fly guys were throwing but it had to be huge along with a huge fly rod and reel with a ton of backing and good running shoes to follow the fish. Later Hex

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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #28 on: Aug 23, 2019, 10:24 AM »

That fish had a 3" mouse in it's gut, that was about halfway digested. First mouse in one's stomach I've seen, guess I'll have to fish more mice flies! LOL Hex

Brown trout are quite the opportunists as you know. I think that's one reason why they survive better in the wild than bows or brooks.

I've had them strike at swallows that skim the trout pond when the browns were not that big!
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Re: FISH PORN
« Reply #29 on: Aug 23, 2019, 10:26 AM »
In Russia they use 8 to 10" lemmings as bait. They have a steel looking harness deal and throw them into the river and hold on! They're fishing for the largest freshwater Trout or Salmon called a Taimen. They get up to like 85 pounds and look like sharks without dorsal fins. I saw an article in my FlyFisherman Magazine a few years back. I can't remember what the fly guys were throwing but it had to be huge along with a huge fly rod and reel with a ton of backing and good running shoes to follow the fish. Later Hex

Yeah they really get big although I read somewhere they are on the decline to to habitat destruction and dams like everything else. Not the most attractive salmonid though.

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