Friday
Nov132009
Nov Slab of the Month Entry: Milwaukee River Brown Trout
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:00AM 
Whilst wielding a switch rod and a poo brown streamer, David Heyman took this kype smacking brown in the Milwaukee. First the Fonz, then Holmgren, and now this? WI doesn't get the respect it deserves.
tagged brown trout, kype, milwaukee river, streamers in Contests, fly fishing
brown trout, kype, milwaukee river, streamers in Contests, fly fishing
Reader Comments (14)
dang - thats a nice fish - love the kype porn
It's an Atlantic. Torpedo Shape, blue halo spots, duck billed kype, narrow caudel peduncle...
It does look a lot like an Atlantic, but I do know that many of the WI Lake Michigan tribs get good lake-run brown trout runs, so it could be that. Anyone from WI know if Atlantics are possible in Lake Michigan??
Ha! Thanks for throwing this up Chum Guys. One hundred percent brown trout though. I lived in Scotland in college and caught many colored up Atlantic Salmon which do look remarkably like the venerable Brown. Had I thought this was an Atlantic, I probably would have had a heart attack. Every few years someone catches an Atlantic in the area (wanderer from a hatchery program up the lake on the St. Mary's). The other pics on my site betray his straight Salmo Trutta-ness. Wisconsin supports an immense lake run Brown Trout program and our lake has been growing 'em big lately.
Dammit!!! I submitted my Milwaukee slab to MC, but now I know I have absolutely no chance of it getting up there. Great Fish! Well at least I can find mine on chicagotroutbum.com. Congrats buddy!
CW
P.S. I love the perplexed look on your face.
I think us Great Lakes folks should start a "Dirty Thirty" club for Brown Trout...
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Hear, hear !!!!!!!!!
CW
it takes two hands and a knee to hold a fish that big -
"that's a slobosaurous!"-- my favorite Gillespie quote for all the kids in the MKE.
NO ATLANTICS in Lake Michigan, only Chinook and Coho. And believe me, the Chinooks look more like deep fried turds during spawn......
There are some HUGE browns in the Tribs, especially the S.E. Seeforellen strain accounts for the bulk of fish over 30" so they do look somewhat different from the germans.
I posted one in the FEB SOTM at 36" 25#. The new World Record just came out of the Manistee on the east shore of Lake Mich.
How about a 36" Club - 30's are pretty darn common.
Oh, SWEET BROWNIE DUDE !!
Let me clear my throat... ahhhh ah heeemmm. While atlantic salmon are no longer directly planted into Lake Michigan tribs they are planted in the St Marys which is directly connected to northern Lake Huron. While the bulk of the fish spend their lives in the Georgian Bay areas of Lake Huron fish have been been documented from those St Marys river plants through out Lake Michigan and Huron. I doubt this fish is an Atlantic just by its color and shape. For more on the Atlantic Salmon program that was started at LSSU visit this link to the fisheries department page and the web cam at the plant site. During the peak of run it gets loaded full of fish behind the edison power channel chutes. Regardless piggly wiggly.. http://www.lssu.edu/arl/fishcam.php
Thanks sideshow. The fishery you referred to were those "rare atlantics" I was referring to in my original comment on the post. There is no real or current fishery other than the incidental one you have described. From the moment that fish took the fly, I knew it was Salmo Trutta, my brown trout friend, through and through. On a side note, I would love to get a crack at those Atlantics up north though!
Didnt i see this kid at the anglers den in pawling ny some years ago??Way to go dave !! "in tha mouth"