-Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

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-Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

Postby hollywood on Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:03 pm

I was invited to go fish with my uncle and grandpa at Klamath Lake yesterday and jumped at the chance. I have heard stories about big fish but Daniel and I have not had a chance to try it out. I had talked to a few people who said that the big rainbows search the banks for minnows to eat so I knew exactly what I was going to use!! :mrgreen: We had a fun day of fishing and even caught one!! I landed this nice, fat 23 inch redband trout after about three hours of fishing!! I would guess it was four pounds but fought like a much larger fish! The water looked like a blown out river and was chocolate color with only a foot at most of visibility. We saw a few fish jumping and splashing and it got me excited because they were the size of respectable steelhead! No one else that we talked to had caught any fish so I was happy we at least got one.

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What a fat trout!! This fish fought like a steelhead making lots of jumps and pulled drag off my light steelhead rod. We will be going back to make a full Video Episode with these huge rainbows for sure. What a beautiful lake.
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Re: -Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

Postby archer on Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:06 pm

Nice trout, whish I would have been there to knock it off your line at the boat :lol:
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Re: -Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

Postby THE REEL TECH on Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:14 pm

Nice fish Chad!!! That is a PIG :D :D
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Re: -Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

Postby hollywood on Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:20 pm

It was a nice one but I want one of the two monsters that jumped!! One right next to the boat looked like a trout over 10 lbs :!:
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Re: -Klamath Lake Redband Trout (04-06-09)-

Postby hollywood on Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:41 pm

Here is the short quick clip of some of the lake and fish!!

http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/quick- ... h-lake.htm
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