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Below is an incredible fish caught by my cousin!
Ernie
Juani Lopez Ona report:
I've been a freshwater fisherman with an occasional salt trip for good measure. This "fish of a lifetime" is a 28 1/2" 7+lb Rainbow caught on a small tributary of the Lehigh in PA.
It must of swum upstream from the main stem. On this little stream, it found a nice ledge in a deep pool to sit under that was a natural combination feeding and cover station. It was caught on a 7 1/2 ft. 4 wgt fly rod with 6x fluorocarbon tippet on a size 20 bead head pheasant tail nymph. The fish incredibly over matched the tackle but it was so surprised to be hooked it jumped itself into exhaustion instead of running me to the spool which it could have easily have done given the light tackle on which I had it. And we didn't have a net!
We were fishing a stream to which we hike back into for about a mile and target are wild brown trout that go to about 12". We had to hand tail the fish. One friend was trying to hand me my rod for the pic but I was too scared of dropping the fish to get the rod in the pic. The other friend was scrambling to get his camera as he stood aghast at the fish. It was a riot. The fish was released unharmed.
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you sure his family? he actually catches fish!
and nice ones too
I'll be back after smallies on Sunday, can't seem to get enough
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He is family and he does catch fish. I got skunked today!
Good luck with the smallies....I need to get out there but need to hook into a big striper or blue cat first!
Ernie
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