Best Trout of 2008 [Archive]

Jimmy

12-20-2008, 07:06 AM

I thought we could share our best trout photo's from this year. I did this last two years and got a pretty good response.

I caught this 30" 10 pound Mackinaw when fishing by myself at Crescent Lake in November.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/crescentnov08_004.jpg

fish-on-bend

12-20-2008, 07:34 AM

Great idea Jimmy. Lets make this an Ifish tradition on the trout board.
This bull was caught and released on Billy Chinook in April.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/IMG_02631.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/74397/size/big/cat//ppuser/8168)

This mack was the 4 th place fish in the June mack derby at Cultus. Caught and released at the dock at weigh-in.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/IMG_03472.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/78937/size/big/cat//ppuser/8168)

All of the biggest macks that were caught on my boat in 2008 were caught by other fishermen and I hope they post those pics , but here was my best for the year from Crescent on that magic day of Dec. 5th. Caught and released.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/IMG_01632.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/90822/size/big/cat//ppuser/8168)

kigercreek

12-20-2008, 08:02 AM

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Mack21.JPG

Crescent Lake in late June. Somewhere between 14 and 16 lbs, as the mack was never still in the net while I was weighing.

Klamanite

12-20-2008, 08:24 AM

Awesome fish guys :applause: :thisbig:

Here's ours:

My son Tyler with his personal best Brown of 5 lbs

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Tyler_5_lb_er.JPG

Here is my daughter Kayla with a 6 3/4 lb Klamath Rainbow with some help from brother :D

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/IMGP00191.JPG

My 9 lb 1 oz Hookjaw and my personal best trout ever :thisbig:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Mike_9_lb_1_oz.JPG

And finally my buddy Jim with his first Mack at 33" and 15 1/2 lbs :applause::applause:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/15_5_lb_Mack.JPG

grsteelies

12-20-2008, 09:05 AM

Here is pic of my son Sam with his 1st trophy size brownie. 25" of toughness and teeth. I just got the repo back from the fish lady. can't wait to give it to him on Christmas. Nice fish gentleman, and girl too.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/STA72259.JPG

TTFishon

12-20-2008, 09:14 AM

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq290/tedfishmon/100_1906.jpg

Not my biggest brown, but my biggest this year. I caught him at Wickiup on my first cast using a suspending rapala. He was 24" long.

Bend_Fishin'

12-20-2008, 11:10 AM

Great looking fish cought this year, thanks guys. I cought this one, my biggest freshwater fish, a 33" Mack in Crescent lake (thanks to Joe). It was on Dec. 5th and it was an excellent day for Macks! http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Mack1_12-05-08.jpg

Splash

12-20-2008, 06:07 PM

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/pikemin.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/82826/size/big/cat//ppuser/4642)

:thisbig:

I got nothin'

:redface: :redface: :redface:

Dan360

12-20-2008, 08:10 PM

That could be the biggest ********* I've ever seen!

Jimmy

12-20-2008, 09:09 PM

Great start today. :applause: Sure like the kids photo's with trophy trout. :excited: Keep them coming...

Steeleman

12-20-2008, 09:51 PM

Here is my best rainbow on the San Juan in New Mexico back in January:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCF0647.JPG

And, here is my Gramps with another nice San Juan Rainbow when I visted in June:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/0633.JPG

Enjoy!

Steeleman

12244

12-21-2008, 10:02 AM

I put this one in the Canby Pond.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Pond_Pig.jpg
And this lucky angler pulled him out on Fathers Day
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/2008-06-18-2042-14_edited.jpg

hookjawfreak

12-21-2008, 10:26 AM

Nice fish all around!:applause:

I got my Nephew onto this beautiful 6 lb brown at East Lake on July 5th. This was his first brown trout ever caught and really wanted to keep it, but later that day he realeased one almost as big. He's hooked on the C&R now:excited:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Copy_of_IMGP1312.JPG

Here's my best trout of the year at 9+ lbs. C&R'd at East Lake in late August.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Copy_of_Copy_of_IMGP05391.JPG

jjelkhorn

12-21-2008, 06:02 PM

My wife caught this 22" 4 lb rainbow at Diamond Lake this fall.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii11/jjelkhorn/020-1.jpg

leadlobber

12-21-2008, 08:52 PM

nice looking fish keep them coming

Gillfish3

12-21-2008, 09:44 PM

13547

Opening Day on Hagg Lake, 12 lbs, 29" long

FlieFreak

12-22-2008, 12:00 PM

I love Salmon and steelhead fishing, but i still don't think it beast being up in central oregon fishing those beautiful lakes for those fatty trout!!!

stupenny5

12-22-2008, 12:12 PM

nice pictures

SlamminKokes

12-22-2008, 10:43 PM

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/100_0277.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/91829/ppuser/2429)

CoyoteBrownTrtHntr

12-23-2008, 09:53 AM

Awesome fish everyone! :applause:

I caught my biggest ever Mackinaw this past May from Crescent. Taping 33" and weighing 17.5lbs.
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13575&stc=1&d=1230054037

I tied for my biggest brown trout of the year at 7lbs. each. Here is the first from East Lake in July. A 28" killer hookjaw which was C & R with TrophyTroutHunter.
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13576&stc=1&d=1230054037

The second was a shorter (26") but stockier male caught in May.
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13578&stc=1&d=1230054037

I got my buddy Brad into his biggest ever brown trout on the same trip in May. A beautiful 5-1/2lb., 24" male which was also C & R.
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13579&stc=1&d=1230054037

And Finally, Dan netted the BIGGEST brown trout of his life from Wickiup on our trip in July!! Can't believe he forgot this one...........:D:jester:
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13577&stc=1&d=1230054037

2008 was my best year ever for Browns and Macks. Those two 7lbers. were the two biggest I've caught in 8 years! Here's to 2009...:cheers:

comeherefish

12-27-2008, 11:01 AM

:meme:My Daughters best for 08 from Northfork Reservoir.
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh66/v24200/DSC02688-1.jpg
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh66/v24200/DSC02692-1.jpg

D3smartie

12-27-2008, 11:57 AM

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5351/927editna1.jpg

Sea-run cutt from Puget Sound.

boomguy

12-28-2008, 07:29 PM

29" bull trout at LBC while fishing for kokanee with shallow gear

bwild

12-29-2008, 01:00 PM

Here's me with my personal best lake trout caught from Crescent in May of '08. 16 lbs, 32 inches. I was with Klamanite and my father. Coyote and Hookjaw were also up there that weekend. This fish was released immediately after the photo.

http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13693&stc=1&d=1230583671

And here's me with my largest brown of '08. This also was at Crescent in May of '08 with my Dad (Klamanite wasn't there yet). Not my largest by a fair margin, but I was pleased. 26 inch, 5-1/2 lb hookjaw brown, C&Red.
http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13694&stc=1&d=1230583671

Didn't get to fish NEARLY enough this year (I was very busy), but it's always great to get out and fish with great people. We are truly blessed here in Oregon! Congrats to everyone else's catches this year :applause: Some great pics (and I really love seeing the kids getting out there and getting some really nice trout)! Here's to bigger and better things for '09:cheers:

bwild

12-29-2008, 01:03 PM

Hey Hookjaw! What about Allen's beast of a Brown that he caught this year? Are you going to post it? That fish truly needs to be shared, especially since it was C&Red!

smalldog

12-29-2008, 02:59 PM

http://www.ifish.net/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=13576&stc=1&d=1230054037What time was this? In July?

Klamanite

12-29-2008, 07:09 PM

What time was this? In July?

It was July 26th early a.m.

Rick on Rogue

12-30-2008, 04:25 AM

This is not necessairly the "Best" but "One Of"

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Rick_s_fish-Lost_Creek-11-30-08.jpg

bwild

12-30-2008, 08:03 AM

What time was this? In July? Is he there?

Yes, he was C&R'd! We C&R 99.9% of the trout we catch. Unless we're eating them that night or they're mortally wounded, we throw them back to get bigger.:thisbig:

saman

12-30-2008, 09:20 AM

Hands down was the the ice fishing at Diamond Lake.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/saman_1/P4260019.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k271/saman_1/P4260006.jpg

A lot of fun re-living all the old memories with our boys.

nwsoftball

12-31-2008, 09:45 AM

You guys are killing me with your big fish. I got my boat in February and got the Kokanee addiction bad!! I'm on a 12 step program for 2009 that mandates targeting some mack's and browns. These are my best for 2008.

A couple of real nice Kok's from Paulina.
http://www.nwsoftball.com/images/russfish2.JPG

And our best day in 2008. A 50 fish limit from Odell...
http://www.nwsoftball.com/images/odell4.jpg

ElkTalker

12-31-2008, 07:59 PM

This is the brown my oldest son landed. C&R is not his thing.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Wickiup_Res_June_2008_035A.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/81043/ppuser/15535)
The only trout I caught all year were from a small creek. I did manage to catch some nice kok’s
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/merwin_A.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/92532/ppuser/15535)
I can’t wait until spring!!!

wilsonriverfisher

12-31-2008, 08:06 PM

Nice fish everybody....I never got any trout worthy of a picture this year...Maybe next year or this pre spring

Mike

Holeymolar

01-07-2009, 10:49 PM

Uncle Howard with his 18 lb 3 oz rainbow

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCN0157.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/93018/size/big/cat//ppuser/12175)

FallRiverGuy

01-08-2009, 09:01 AM

:bigshock: What a pig!

Dullhook

01-08-2009, 02:11 PM

Being a lowly koke fisherman I can't really contribute anything to compare with the size of the beauties shown on this thread. However here's a true and proven method of measuring your catch that many will appreciate.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/redneckjoke.jpg

bwild

01-08-2009, 05:23 PM

:applause: Bravo, Bravo. Well played, good sir.

Being a lowly koke fisherman I can't really contribute anything to compare with the size of the beauties shown on this thread. However here's a true and proven method of measuring your catch that many will appreciate.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/redneckjoke.jpg

bwild

01-08-2009, 05:24 PM

:yeahthat::bigshock::yeahthat::bigshock: What a pig!

TTFishon

01-08-2009, 06:20 PM

Uncle Howard with his 18 lb 3 oz rainbow

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCN0157.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/93018/size/big/cat//ppuser/12175)
Wow!!! Where was that caught?

Tulley

01-11-2009, 11:02 AM

Wow!!! Where was that caught?

Next to the sagebrush and snow!:)

Holeymolar

01-12-2009, 10:07 PM

Wow!!! Where was that caught?
Same place this one was caught :wink:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Gerard1.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/93300/size/big/cat//ppuser/12175)

bwild

01-13-2009, 10:45 AM

Same place this one was caught :wink:

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/Gerard1.jpg (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/93300/size/big/cat//ppuser/12175)

My guesses are Okanagon, Pend Orielle, or Deifenbaker?

Holeymolar

01-13-2009, 12:03 PM

Good guesses, but it was caught in the "Woods".

bwild

01-13-2009, 12:51 PM

Good guesses, but it was caught in the "Woods".

Hey, that's where I go deer hunting :wink: Regardless of where they were caught, those are some dandy rainbows.

However, I'm assuming they're Gerrard strand?

bwild

01-13-2009, 12:56 PM

So for kicks and giggles, I googled "Woods Lake Rainbows". I about died when the first potential search came up. I did this :bigshock: Then I did this :passout: Then I did this on the floor:laugh:

Needless to say, it was quite funny.

Klamanite

01-13-2009, 02:04 PM

"Rufus Woods" Wa ................ Big Difference :whistle:

You might have some success trolling there, just not the fishy kind. :redface:

Doc_Rhen

01-22-2009, 09:33 AM

This was a fun Spring morning, and the littlest girl in the boat caught the biggest fish on a pink zebco.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s191/rhenj_photos/Fish316.jpg

moknots

01-22-2009, 11:15 AM

I like to carry a net big enough to land the next state record. Unfortunately, it seems to work just like really expensive raingear - you only need it when you leave it at home. I gotta start leaving it at home.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCN0549_-_Copy.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/80441/size/big/cat//ppuser/10102)
I prefer to hand land them if they are going back in the lake where most of them go, instead of on the wall or the BBQ. Keep the memory, let the fish make more.... (Note my friend's son is wearing his life preserver from the boating safety life jacket give-away at the C.O. Sportsman's show -- very well supported last year by a bunch of iFish volunteers.)

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCN0555_-_Copy.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/80442/size/big/cat//ppuser/10102)
I was happy to see my brother-in-law keep one to eat, now that he doesn't have to eat through a tube in his stomach anymore. This is about 6 months after his last cancer treatment. The rest went back in the lake.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/DSCN0548_-_Copy.JPG (http://www.ifish.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/80439/size/big/cat//ppuser/10102)

GUPPYSLAYER

01-22-2009, 12:01 PM

Caught at Timothy Lake in August; 26in/unknown weight-no scale. It looks like a rainbow in the picture but it had reddish marks under the gill plates

gottafish

01-24-2009, 12:03 PM

Caught at Timothy Lake in August; 26in/unknown weight-no scale. It looks like a rainbow in the picture but it had reddish marks under the gill plates
CUTTBOW hatchery fish. cross between cutthrout and rainbow

njhadfield

01-25-2009, 09:38 PM

not bad for my first mac

rum runner

01-27-2009, 06:44 PM

My first ever Mac, compliments of Fish-on-Bend......

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/resized_big_fish.jpg

Ras

01-27-2009, 11:28 PM

Just a bunch of spunky little fly-caught footballs:thisbig:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/rkrasmor/Fishing/052508-Chick-Bows061.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/rkrasmor/Fishing/052508-Chick-Bows084.jpg

Ras

Monkeyboab

03-28-2009, 02:24 AM

Bit late in adding this but only just found the site
Biggest Brown of 2008
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd134/monkeyboab/Awe26and27002.jpg?t=1238232192
15lb 6oz

Rob

CoyoteBrownTrtHntr

03-28-2009, 01:59 PM

WOW!!!! Killer Brown there Monkey! :thisbig:
What a cool looking spot pattern on a beautiful hen!!!
Congrats on the Brown of a lifetime. :applause:
What State did that come from?

CWOregon

03-28-2009, 03:14 PM

Sweet! That's a good one. Almost looks fake, I havent seen one with that type of coloring. I rarely fish for browns though.

HammerinHonkers

03-28-2009, 03:51 PM

These are some great pics. That is one helluva BROWN, damn. Here one of Raptorchilds big boys from April 08'

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc195/zchandle/CIMG0089.jpg

Monkeyboab

03-29-2009, 10:46 AM

Thanks guys, some cracking fish on here.
Coyote the fish was from Loch Awe in Scotland, should be a good bit bigger by now.
Heres another Brown a **** fish of 19lb4oz
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd134/monkeyboab/Lochy18thapril003.jpg?t=1238349082

Another fish I like for the spot pattern, smaller at 12lbs but like a torpedo :0)
http://file039a.bebo.com/2/large/2008/01/29/22/5279053279a6749127103l.jpg

Jimmy

03-29-2009, 11:31 AM

Monkeyboab

03-29-2009, 11:41 AM

Monkeyboab,

Welcome to ifish. Those are some nice browns. :applause: Are they sea run browns?

Thanks Jimmy, these aren't sea running fish, I ve had sea run browns that we call seatrout like this one they tend to be more silver coloured
http://file042a.bebo.com/1/large/2008/01/29/22/5279053279a6749074319l.jpg