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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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Report at a Glance

General Region	Huntington County
Specific Location	Several well known trout streams
Dates Fished	Several days last week
Time of Day	various
Fish Caught	lots of trout 10" - 18"
Conditions & Hatches	Don't care about hatches - I catch fish on live nymphs, especially those white worms in those little stick houses, shiners, and some artificial nymphs

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Cdcaddis18
Huntington, PA

Posts: 16

Cdcaddis18 on Jul 4, 2009July 4th, 2009, 11:58 pm EDT

Had a great week pinning, caught many trout every day. Am glad I moved to this area of PA! Lots of trout are eager to eat my baits. Limited out every day and have a couple dozen 12" - 18" browns in my freezer.

Shawnny3
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Pleasant Gap, PA

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Shawnny3 on Jul 5, 2009July 5th, 2009, 2:14 pm EDT

Glad for your success, Cdcaddis18, and welcome to the forum. Also, welcome to the area - I am also a transplant here from upstate NY. I would only suggest that you fill your freezer with smaller fish and leave the bigger ones to fight (and spawn) another day. A little digital camera would nicely preserve the memory of the larger ones without cluttering up your freezer. If the streams you fished are indeed well known, then the fish you caught had probably been caught and released many times by other anglers for the future enjoyment of others, in this case you. Try to be mindful that most streams here in Central PA are pretty heavily pressured, and that your fishing would likely not have been nearly as successful on this outing if every angler before you had limited out on big fish.

-Shawn

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