PA Grand Slam!

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2009/05/31 06:04:12 (permalink)

PA Grand Slam!

Took me 2 weeks but I finally completed the Pa. Grand Slam for trout. Last week in one spot I caught(state park) a Brook,Brown,Rainbow,and LOST a Palamino at the shore. On Thur fished Pine Creek State Park. Caught 7 trout, all Rainbows and 1  18 inch Palamino. Was not a great day(slow fishing,rain) but while I was fishing I watched a bear and a deer on the opposite bank. That was priceless!!   I don't count Tiger trout because they stock very few. Have not caught one in about 4 years. All I need is one Lake Trout and I will have the Great Grand Slam. I already caught a ton of Steelhead in Erie in Feb. and April. This is very possible because I will be heading to Erie twice in June.  Sad thing is I could not get anyone to go!! and I invited 6 guys. The same lame excuses too early,might rain,gotta cut the grass, etc.......     Anyone else complete the trout grand slam?
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    salmotrutta
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/05/31 16:44:58 (permalink)
    I've never caught a Lake Trout, but I'd like to.

    Lyrical
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/05/31 20:12:05 (permalink)
    Salmo, I already have a 40 incher on my wall, and I hate to say it but I've had carp much smaller fight better. Lakers just stay down deep and shake their head once in awhile. Kind of neat trolling with 6 inch spoons though. You know you got a big fish if it swallows a spoon that size!
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/05/31 21:43:06 (permalink)
    I hear they fight like that, but I hear they are good eating! 40" fish is nice.
    I've caught two Tiger Trout in the Falling Spring. They are neat fish- the way they act I mean.
    They seem to charge @ the fly, then stop just short of it to inspect closely. At least the ones I've caught did.
    There is a private hatchery up stream from it. I'm sure they escaped as fingerlings.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/05/31 23:19:34 (permalink)
    i trippled up on wild fish today... not PA

    D-nymph and I did it on a day in early May on wild PA fish... http://forums.fishusa.com/m_193385/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm


    never got a laker...
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 01:01:32 (permalink)
    No Place,
       In about 1972 a friend and I fished the Spring Creek above the paradise.  In the course of a long day I did catch a brook, brown, rainbow, palamino, and an albino trout  (white with pink eyes).  I have two lakers, a couple of steelhead, a pink, and a king.  And a couple of cutthroat and some artic char.  I have never caught a tiger, but I have caught a brookie over 20".
    post edited by indsguiz - 2009/06/02 09:48:58

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 06:12:43 (permalink)
    Salmo, Lakers are VERY good eating. My brother marinates them over night in a honey mustard sauce. Then grills them. Much better than chinook(king) salmon smoked or grilled!
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 06:30:25 (permalink)
    Indsguiz, I have caught 2 pink salmon in Erie. One in 1994 and the other in 2003. Both caught in 20 mile. I have also caught tons of Coho(silver) salmon(my secret bait was bacon fat) before in Erie, way before Steelhead ran up the streams(before 1991). Use to catch a few Kings but have not caught one since 2005. Caught my biggest Brown trout in 12 mile back in 1991. She was 28 and half inches and weighed 14 lbs. I was in college at the time(NO money) so instead of going on the wall, a guy from Pitts. ate her!  I did see 2 Atlantic salmon in Oak Orchard N.Y.(2000) Guy next to me snagged an awesome looking male, that hooked jaw looked fake. And of course he kept it.
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 12:20:58 (permalink)
    Indsguiz.....was fishing back in 2002 on a creek in Edinboro, PA.  Caught browns, brookies, rainbows and one palomino (small).  It was probably the most memorable fishing day I have ever had.
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 15:00:13 (permalink)
    I never saw an Albino.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 15:29:59 (permalink)
    I got a grand slam this past weekend, and a trifecta on Sunday alone. Rather than a palamino, though, I comlpeted my grand slam with a big tiger on Saturday. All on the fly, and the trifecta Sunday all on dries! Fun times!
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 15:50:37 (permalink)
    drake gets the sucker slam often.  The golden, the white,, northern hog, etc...

    My reports and advice are for everyone to enjoy, not just the paying customers.
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 16:02:16 (permalink)
    "albino", "palomino", and "golden rainbows" are widely misidentified

    the state only stocks Golden Rainbows
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 18:09:26 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: Cold

    I got a grand slam this past weekend, and a trifecta on Sunday alone. Rather than a palamino, though, I comlpeted my grand slam with a big tiger on Saturday. All on the fly, and the trifecta Sunday all on dries! Fun times!


    That's cool!

    ORIGINAL: Cold

    I got a grand slam this past weekend, and a trifecta on Sunday alone. Rather than a palamino, though, I comlpeted my grand slam with a big tiger on Saturday. All on the fly, and the trifecta Sunday all on dries! Fun times!


    Haha!

    ORIGINAL: KJH807

    "albino", "palomino", and "golden rainbows" are widely misidentified

    the state only stocks Golden Rainbows


    Yup.



    If I go to the local stocked C&R place it's not out of the ordinary to get three, but the Orange ones are picky bastages.
    Where I fish most of the time it's 99.9% wild Browns. A few Suckers, Carp, Rainbows & Brookies.

    Lyrical
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/01 20:02:52 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: salmotrutta

    I never saw an Albino.

      Oddly, at the time neither had I and I was 23 yrs old.  And outside of the hatchery I've only ever seen 1 other.  A friend who worked at benner springs hatchery told me that the fish comm. experimented with trying an albino strain but they didn't breed true back in the 70's.  It's such a submissive gene.  They had some in the building at Benner Springs 30 years ago; but today?

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 08:23:54 (permalink)
    When the PFBC was experimenting with albino, palomino, and goldens back in the 70's, I took an old Polaroid photo (no idea where it is now) of a trout at the Fisherman's Paradise hatchery of one of their mutants.  It was actually blue, as in robin egg, all along the back.
     
    We asked why they were doing this and the response was to make them easier for the fishermen to see and know that we stocked.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 09:41:23 (permalink)
    Odd the way the fish commission thinks. I saw a Blue Trout @ Cabellas a couple years ago. 

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 09:47:12 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: duncsdad

    When the PFBC was experimenting with albino, palomino, and goldens back in the 70's, I took an old Polaroid photo (no idea where it is now) of a trout at the Fisherman's Paradise hatchery of one of their mutants.  It was actually blue, as in robin egg, all along the back.

    We asked why they were doing this and the response was to make them easier for the fishermen to see and know that we stocked.

        Saw the same fish and some more back then.  They used to try out some interesting combinations for research with PSU.  We used to just go to visit just to see the different breeds they had.  Is the research facility still open to the public?  Haven't been there in about 30 years.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 10:11:53 (permalink)


    Like that?
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 10:28:07 (permalink)
    I caught two albino trout in East Hickory Creek about 20 years ago. Haven't seen any since.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 10:50:37 (permalink)
    Yep, that's the blue trout.
     
    I don't know if they still do that type of stuff or not.
     
    Maybe the PFBC should pair up with the PGC and work on those chartreuse deer, so they are easier to see.

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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 12:44:45 (permalink)
    Maybe the PFBC should pair up with the PGC and work on those chartreuse deer, so they are easier to see.


    Hmmm...is it a bad thing that I immediately thought "that'd be great for bass bugs and clousers"...?
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    RE: PA Grand Slam! 2009/06/02 16:39:26 (permalink)
    Cold,
      You have definately gone over the edge.  Put down the head cement and slowly back away from the tying table. 

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