Mike Pike Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Quiet morning today at Port D. Just a few folks out this morning and at one point I was actually by myself for an hour or so. A little TOO quiet! lol As far as the fish were concerned, they were pretty quiet too. Anyhoo, after drifting with a Gulp minnow for an hour or so with no takers, I switched to some old salmon roe I had tied up in a bright orange mesh. The only fish of the morning, this Brown, finally broke the silence. It's my best Brown of the season, so I wanted to post it. Thank you to my new friend from Kitchener for the net job and taking the photo. Driving home to Hamilton around noon, the snow just started to come down and it's still coming as I'm typing this. Already enough on the ground to start shovelling in the Hammer. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Hey Mike ....Nice going , real nice brown !! I like the colour on brown trout ! Could that be Port Dalloozie by any chance ? Ha Ha ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron4blues Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Very nice fish. Love the colours. Looking at that picture I can see why smerchly would say my Atlantic salmon pic looked like a brown. But then they are related. . . Salmo salar and Salmo trutta. I've never caught a brown. . . hope to one day soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightfisher Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Good job Mike. The bite has been slow at Port this year. Glad a few are being caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishfight Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 The smile on the picture says it all! Perseverance pays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pike Posted February 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Thanks Crew, and yes Smerch that's Daloozie. I haven't figured out how to photoshop the background out yet( lol ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 No need to photo shop those pics i think everyone know where to get them puppies. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLofchik Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Very nice fish. Love the colours. Looking at that picture I can see why smerchly would say my Atlantic salmon pic looked like a brown. But then they are related. . . Salmo salar and Salmo trutta. I've never caught a brown. . . hope to one day soon. If you want to get really picky you could name the strain as well, that looks like a Seeforellen. NY started stocking them in the 80's, they're the ones that grow to be the real pigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denis Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 nice fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin Joe Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Nice job Mike!!!! Congrats man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keukakatch&release Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 If you want to get really picky you could name the strain as well, that looks like a Seeforellen. NY started stocking them in the 80's, they're the ones that grow to be the real pigs. I thought the exact same thing. Very sparse spot pattern..... Incidentally, I don't think we have stocked them over here in a bunch of years. Could be a "wild" (at least as wild as an invasive species can get) spawned fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Pike Posted February 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Thanks for the comments guys. Regarding the strain, I have to admit, as soon as I got a good look at it, it definately looked 'different' and of course first thing I thought was; Atlantic? But the spots on the body looked more like spots than x's. The fact that ya think it's probably a different strain totally makes sense to me because it's unlike any Brown I've caught before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron4blues Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Thanks for the comments guys. Regarding the strain, I have to admit, as soon as I got a good look at it, it definately looked 'different' and of course first thing I thought was; Atlantic? But the spots on the body looked more like spots than x's. The fact that ya think it's probably a different strain totally makes sense to me because it's unlike any Brown I've caught before. I wouldn't have thought it to be an Atlantic. But there are similarities. The picture I was referring to is the one I'm attaching below. This is a 15-16 lb hen caught near the mouth of the West River in Antigonish Nova Scotia. Landlocked salmon (which is what Lake Ontario Salmon would look like) will appear much like this but a bit less chunky and the colours not as bright. Copy this picture to your editor and blow it up to full size. . . the clours will blow you away! Your brownie is much the same in that respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordy M Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Nice fish Mike. Love those browns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik.T. Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Wow nice brown! Nice to see a different colour pattern. there is a possibility of a brown atlantic hybrid. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal...=1&SRETRY=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spottedGARRR Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Wow nice brown! Nice to see a different colour pattern.there is a possibility of a brown atlantic hybrid. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal...=1&SRETRY=0 Erik your link didn't work for me.. but im quite interested in reading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLofchik Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 I thought the exact same thing. Very sparse spot pattern..... Incidentally, I don't think we have stocked them over here in a bunch of years. Could be a "wild" (at least as wild as an invasive species can get) spawned fish I thought NY still stocked a few Seeforellen's, or atleast until relatively recently. I know they were still putting them in well into the mid 90's but not sure about now. For the guys that are "Seefor whaa?", back in the glory days of the 80's NY brought back some eggs from Germany. These guys are pelagic browns that act alot like salmon in the big inland lakes of Germany & Austria and grow to be absolute pigs. That's when Lake O brown records started getting pummelled by 30's, I caught one off Bronte in the early 90's that was 36" and north of 20lb's, up until now that's been the only one I've seen on this side of the lake (which is why I got a bit excited when I saw the fish). NY may have started stocking Seeforellen's on this side of the Atlantic, but it was MI & WI that went hog wild for them. Somebody caught a 40 in Michigan last fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLofchik Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Thanks for the comments guys. Regarding the strain, I have to admit, as soon as I got a good look at it, it definately looked 'different' and of course first thing I thought was; Atlantic? The tail, on an Atlantic it will look like a salmon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik.T. Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Erik your link didn't work for me.. but im quite interested in reading it. yeah it only seems to work if you google search "brown atlantic hybrid" and go to the second link from the top sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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