Cold
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Stuck a Pig Today
Had a few hours to fish this evening and decided to make the best of it before the rain blew in. At the car, I had my 000wt strung up and ready to go from yesterday, but at the last minute decided to toss streamers with my 4wt instead. After the first hour or so with nothing bigger than a 4" smallie, I moved to a different spot. A few casts later, I was into this:  Biggest trout of 2011 by far...I'll have to measure my 4wt to get a rough size estimate, but it might be a PB trout for me. Oddly, my two biggest trout have been tigers.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 21:27:17
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Nice lookin' trout Cold....congrats.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
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Mr.Slickfish
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 21:32:12
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Stormtrooper sheet...My biggest tiger was 23.5 and stocked.....nice stick duud
I don't always snag fish, but when I do... I choose Little Cleos I'm the best looking smartest snagging poacher alive...
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 21:37:19
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Stormtrooper sheet...My biggest tiger was 23.5 and stocked.....nice stick duud
Lmao, **** right its stormtrooper sheet.  And yeah, Tim, when I finally got it to hand I thought it was foul hooked too, but the fly just must've worked in around the edge of that upper jaw. Or maybe that's just where I stuck it after I pulled the fly out of it's back.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 21:39:32
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Snaggin is way harder than it looks.....you dont have it in ya....tRuStMe
I don't always snag fish, but when I do... I choose Little Cleos I'm the best looking smartest snagging poacher alive...
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
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Mr.Slickfish
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 21:58:03
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Kinda looks pike-ish to me....u sure thats a trout? wHenU sAd U sTuKA pIG eYe ThoTiT wAzz A KrOuGeR  Hope this helps uRaSs 
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
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Cold
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 22:10:18
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Definitely a trout. Though as I was fighting it, it stayed deep and kept thrashing, and with that fairly uniform color, I was thinking it might have been a walleye (never got one at this spot, though I've heard from other people that they're in there). thanxthathelpad
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 22:14:14
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When you tole me pig earlier you weren't kidding..... NICE I hope we can get into a couple piggys next week...
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 22:19:11
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I thought you were sneaking something out of Skip's smoker.
Sweet looking fish, Cold. Nice hawl. Congrats.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 22:22:09
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The Lord has blessed us all today... It's just that he has been particularly good to me.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/12 23:07:14
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mark, great catch. it looks like the tiger was caught on pink? PINK?  was this from your lady ga, ga's collection?
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 00:09:49
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Nice fish, don't see any Tiger's around my parts, are they not invasive to other trout in the creeks
I like that white fly line with the blaze orange backing, sweet..by the way...what type of reel is that ?
Tight Lines
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 06:01:57
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Beautiful fish, nice catch.
I havn't caught a tiger yet.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 06:06:33
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Very nice Cold. Congrats to ya. Bings - I hear tigers and boo kind of go hand in hand.........
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 06:18:20
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Nice fish, don't see any Tiger's around my parts, are they not invasive to other trout in the creeks
I like that white fly line with the blaze orange backing, sweet..by the way...what type of reel is that ?
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I read they are sterile so they can not breed much like a Mule!
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 07:06:36
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That fish looks a lot like a lake trout to me...
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 07:17:37
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Nice fish cold... I imagine there were crowds at your creek of choice; awesome catch
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 07:48:18
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Tigers taste delicious on the smoker. Hands down the best trout I've ever had smoked.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 08:21:22
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Well, that just goes to show why you are Da Man!
Nice fish.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 08:27:07
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You da man Mark! Very nice! Thats one of the trouts on my to catch list.. 
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 09:19:33
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Nice fish, don't see any Tiger's around my parts, are they not invasive to other trout in the creeks
I like that white fly line with the blaze orange backing, sweet..by the way...what type of reel is that ?
Tight Lines
Like Casino said, they're sterile, so it's kind of hard for them to be invasive, aside from the issue of the browns in a naturally sustaining brookie stream possibly being invasive. The line is actually like a baby $hit green, but you can't tell from the pic, and the reel is a Loop EvoTec, one of my favorite reels. :) That fish looks a lot like a lake trout to me... It's most definitely not. It was caught miles from the nearest laker. If this is a laker then we gotta stop picking on th epeople that think there's steelhead in the loyalhanna. :P I imagine there were crowds at your creek of choice; Fishing...not a soul, except for me. ;) Now come April, it's a different story, but from late summer till March, you can usually expect to have plenty of elbow room. Thanks everyone, for the kind words. I usually fish for wild fish in tiny streams around here...it was nice to be able to put a bend in the rod. :)
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 09:46:03
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First pig you ever stuck?  Nice fish duud... 
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Cold
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 09:52:30
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Hahaha, I didn't say 'first'...but at least it didn't complain when I left an hour later. 
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 10:29:55
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Nice escapee..
We have caught these fish very, very far from the origin...these ones seem to roam the most.
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RE: Stuck a Pig Today
2011/10/13 10:31:56
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Nice escapee..
Ding ding ding! Winner. Nice fish. Tigers always seem to give a hard fight.
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