Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana

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Pteronarcys californica

The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

For how many years, I wonder, have these huge slabs of rock sheltered wild brook trout?

From Mystery Creek # 89 in New York

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Kogotus Stonefly Nymph Kogotus Stonefly Nymph

Dorsal view of a Kogotus (Perlodidae) Stonefly Nymph from Mystery Creek #199 in Washington

This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.

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27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.

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Awesome catch on a river in Canada

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Bush
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Bush on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 12:41 pm EDT

Don't swim in the Winnipeg River, apparently there are monsters in the
water.

This is the new record in Canada.Caught on the Winnipeg River,
in Manitoba.
Check this thing out..
This guy , was fishing and caught a 36" Pike -
as he was reeling it in, a 56" Pike tried to eat it!!!!! He brought
them both in on the same net.

Awesome catch - 55lbs-56 inches.

Shawnny3
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Pleasant Gap, PA

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Shawnny3 on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 1:03 pm EDT

I hope I never see a fish that big, especially with sharp teeth - I'd probably never go near the water again.

Awesome catch. Does this type of catch count in the record books? I guess the 3-foot pike could be construed as 'bait'?

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CaseyP

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CaseyP on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 2:53 pm EDT

ahem...i am NEVER going to fish anything broader than my dining room table, or deeper than my bird bath again.

what in the world was this fellow using for tackle? the Queen Mary's painter?

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Muddler
Calgary,Canada

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Muddler on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 4:59 pm EDT

I'm originally from Winnipeg and can atest to the pike fishing in Manitoba, but that is a freeking alligator. Probably pretty hard to cast a 36" weighted streamer. You would think that a 36" pike would be pretty safe in that area, but makes me wonder what else is in those waterways. There's alot of lakes there.

Smallstream
State College, PA

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Smallstream on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 5:57 pm EDT

That thing looks like a dinasaur!

Troutnut

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Troutnut on Sep 17, 2007September 17th, 2007, 7:16 pm EDT

What a beast! I've seen that top picture all over the Internet, but hadn't seen the other two.

I know there are some pike pushing that size here in interior Alaska, too, though not in the vicinity of Fairbanks or anywhere else on the road system for that matter.

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist