Big spring brookie
- Wall-I-Guy
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I'm sure I will get called some names for this and so be it. But you say that fish came from a creek? Near Owen Sound?
If the creek runs into Georgian Bay then what you may have is a Coaster Brook trout which is rare in Great Lakes south of Superior, though its a little early to find one of those running a creek. Usually they show up later in the year.
Otherwise call me skeptical that your friend lucked into the largest resident Brookie caught out of a southern Ontario creek in at least 50 years OR maybe ever! I want to be precise here I am saying stream/creek not pond. On most creeks a 12" brookie is a nice fish. Anything larger is exeptional.
That trout looks way to fat to have lived its life in a southern Ontario creek.
Doubting Thomas here........Sorry.
If the creek runs into Georgian Bay then what you may have is a Coaster Brook trout which is rare in Great Lakes south of Superior, though its a little early to find one of those running a creek. Usually they show up later in the year.
Otherwise call me skeptical that your friend lucked into the largest resident Brookie caught out of a southern Ontario creek in at least 50 years OR maybe ever! I want to be precise here I am saying stream/creek not pond. On most creeks a 12" brookie is a nice fish. Anything larger is exeptional.
That trout looks way to fat to have lived its life in a southern Ontario creek.
Doubting Thomas here........Sorry.
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i can assure you it is a stream trout and he had several other 12" ones with it. I have fished with him since I was 10 yrs old..hmmmmmm thats about 38 yrs of fishing with him then. Never a tall tail that wasnt backed by proof and a man of his word. Could the trout have escaped out of a pond some where..I suppose..but it was in a stream and caught on a spinner.
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Very nice fish indeed! My father has stocked ponds and every spring he looses a few of the big breaders in the runoff. That fish has the shape of a pond (still water) brookie. But, I guess you never know! It could be that a beaver dam washed out upstream and he was the resident pond monster. It just doesn't have the streamlined build of a speck that's worked current all it's life. Nice fish though, great catch.
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