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They look almost primal,stunning wild fish,great pics
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It was my turn today. I had three ferox two pike and a seatrout. :grin: :grin:
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Looks like there is a high number (ratio) of c*ck fish to hen fish Fergie ?
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Its strange Nigel at certain times its all wee c*ck fish you catch they seem to hang around in packs .There's a few lochs if you catch it right during the smolt run you can catch a load of them . They are cracking looking fish.
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Here's the three from last week.

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Also a 16.8lb pike.
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Brilliant fishing fergie!!
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A few from the weekend. It was hard going for me with only one take and the fish got off. Well it actually trashed my trace and snapped off the end treble .God knows what it was but it was big and very powerful.
George was on form though.

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That trace is mashed!

You sure your in scotland? Looks tropical :giggle:
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fergie68 wrote: Tue May 30 2017 18:35 -
A few from the weekend. It was hard going for me with only one take and the fish got off. Well it actually trashed my trace and snapped off the end treble .God knows what it was but it was big and very powerful.
George was on form though.

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HaHa aye Davy I was in that area. (The fish wernt) i was Camping on Inchlonaig.
Were you on the shore fishing under a brolly . ?
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dannytaylor wrote: Tue May 30 2017 18:45 -
That trace is mashed!

You sure your in scotland? Looks tropical :giggle:
God knows what those southern pike anglers introduced in the 80s Danny. :laughs: :suspect:
It did feel a bit tropical up here this weekend.
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:eek: That trace!

You sure you weren't on Loch Ness, Fergie? :laughs:
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There be monsters in a few lochs up here Jake. :wink: :laughs: :thumbs:
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fergie68 wrote: Tue May 30 2017 22:11 -
There be monsters in a few lochs up here Jake. :wink: :laughs: :thumbs:
You've had some cracking fish....great job :thumbs:
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fergie68 wrote: Tue May 30 2017 19:18 -
HaHa aye Davy I was in that area. (The fish wernt) i was Camping on Inchlonaig.
Were you on the shore fishing under a brolly . ?
Yes that was me. normally would sleep on the boat but had the family out for a good time !!
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That's a nice spot you had. :thumbs:
I had to raise the engine going through that gap but it was better than running the gauntlet through the other one with all the speedboats and jet skis that were there at the time.
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Aye was busy with speed freaks with all that sunshine, good base area that was jumping with troots evening and morning
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Aye i fished till the back of ten on Friday night I had a go for those rising fish with a wee rapala but they weren't having it.
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First of the season for me.
Not the biggest but very welcome after a string of blank freezing windy days.
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Superb specimen Fergie, the spots on it look like they have been photo shopped, they are that vivid!! it went from Baltic to balmy in the space of a week down here at Rutland, some cracking browns coming out again, fish to 16lb came out last year, (they are all triploids nowadays) not bad from being stocked at around 1-1/2lb.

Do you get many oppuntunities with surface action throughout the year? back in 1989 to 1991 we had some amazing surface sport at Rutland with big fish, Browns & rainbows that were herding up roach around 5-7 inches up to the surface, over deep (not as deep as your lochs) but over 50/60 feet of water.

It was similar to the blue water salt water fishing, with in this case gulls circling overhead showing you where the action was going to be next, it was a who's was going to get the roach, the gull or the trout, my best rainbow was 8lb 2oz, she had three 6/7 inch roach in side her!
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Beautiful fish. Congrats!
You are doing something right catching the big ones regularly. Well done :)
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Very rarely Nigel. I've seen charr being chased to the surface and once seen a massive shoal of powan on the surface which was amazing it looked like thousands of mullet splashing around. The ferox seem to be pretty hard to catch when they are in among a huge shoal of bait fish.

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What's the big trout situation over your way. ❓
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We were talking to a guy from down south in 2012 who had his own cottage at one of the big lochs up north he was a member of the ferox 85 group we were staying the week saw him out most days even told us where he was catching all the pike as that's what we were after very nice guy had his son and daughter with him that week
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fergie68 wrote: Tue Apr 24 2018 20:57 -
Very rarely Nigel. I've seen charr being chased to the surface and once seen a massive shoal of powan on the surface which was amazing it looked like thousands of mullet splashing around. The ferox seem to be pretty hard to catch when they are in among a huge shoal of bait fish.

Cheers Nords. :thumbs:
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Ive seen some amazing old pics of huge German trout.
In my area there are no trout except from stocked rainbows in put and take lakes.

There are some very nice fish to be found in the alpine lakes and also in the big stews of the Sauerland though. (Both are excellent pike waters too with fish well over 20kg)

If you are interested here are some of the biggest browns and ferox reported: https://www.fisch-hitparade.de/hitliste/bachforelle https://www.fisch-hitparade.de/hitliste/seeforelle

As you can see from the pictures, unfortunately most fish are taken for consumption though. That probably is why a big trout is often referred to as the fish of 1000 casts. Besides that many waters are heavily regulated, the big stews didn't allow motors up till a few years ago for example.

We also have some trout stock in the baltic sea, but situation is about as difficult as on the lakes. People catch big ones from time to time when trolling for salmon though. The island of Rügen and the danish border area would be the places to go in that case. https://www.fisch-hitparade.de/hitliste/meerforelle
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There are some absolute crackers there. Like you say pity so many are dead. These big fish should really be returned to pass on their genes.
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If you ever make it to Germany to fish I think Möhnesee and Biggesee would be your best options.

I fully agree with you about releasing those fish. It is a shame they end up dead. However, because it is common in Germany, there are new fish stocked every year, so at least the genetics wont be lost as they probably come from the same stock as the generations before.
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Ohhh wow lovely.Very similar to the Corrib ferox.
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7lb 2oz from this weekend.
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That's a decent looking fish. I know you can't really quantify catches as such but how many hours per fish do you average out at Fergie?
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