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Ok trollers pay close attention: You think you know what’s going on down around your downrigger? Think again! I shot this video last summer and fall while chasing rainbows, king salmon and kokanee in various lakes around Nor Cal. Interesting stuff…
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Fish and fisherman...in their respective elements
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It’s going to be interesting to see how the April Hawg of the Month vote goes! This time around, we have a pretty strong field…Some really nice steelies (including two in the 20-pound class), a mammoth 17-pound rainbow from a private lake, a largemouth bass that could swallow a Fiat, a big ‘ol marble eye and the always popular cute kid with a fish. So, who’s it gonna be? You decide! Too see full size photos of the contenders, click HERE and scroll down.
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Okay, so what to get when you cross a rainbow trout with a farm pig? How about this 34-inch, 17-pound beast caught by Wayne Holloway on a black Crystal Bugger!
Despite the fact that the obese bow was taken from private pay-to-play waters (Eagle Canyon Trophy Trout Lakes out of Red Bluff), it’s still quite an impressive specimen and is the latest entry to our Hawg of the Month Contest. At the end of April, Wayne will go up against other monthly contenders for a shot at the Hawg Bowl Playoffs and…perhaps a trip to the Hawg Bowl in December. Monthly Hawg winners earn Pautzke head gear and the grand champ wins a guided fishing trip for two with guide Bill “Swanny” Swann of Swanny’s Fishing. Click HERE to enter.
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Man, that's a huge trout...but about that growth on its lower lip....?!?!?!?
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When's trout season open again?
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It's a grind getting down there, but worth the trip!
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It’s been awhile since I stumbled onto some Taxidermy Gone Bad, but I found this gem a few days back. It seems that rainbow trout and steelies, two of the world’s most vibrant creatures, are particularly vulnerable to bad mount jobs…it’s just not that easy to recreate the color schemes these fish sport when alive. Mix that with a few decades up on the wall, plenty of exposure to fluorescent lighting and a 1/4-inch of dust …and PRESTO!…you’ve got a trout that is either coming down with the flu or looks like he was maybe swallowed up and cast solid in the ash flowing down from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
To see more bad taxidermy, click HERE
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