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Nov. Slab of the Month Entry: Wild Rainbow?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 12:00AM 
Mark: "42" by 24" - the calculator says 31 pounds. Slab of the month?"
Chum: "Uh, that's all kinds of fish - details please"
Mark: "Wild Rainbow - lower 48. That's all the details needed."
Comments commence...
Reader Comments (46)
Exceptional. Agreed though, looks like a big old Salty fella to me-big steelie seems to be the consensus.
photoshop, I think.
too bad you dont fish anymore and are deeply involved in frats.... bummer
Surprising nobody's figured out the local considering bove posts hawgs from that stretch annually. Do us a favor Mark and catch one under the stars; )
Salt River, AZ
Hybrid
"nice shades there April"
Haha! Funny chit.
Might aswell go kill yourself cause you've clearly attained some form of higher enlightenment.
Everything else you do or try, will only leave you sadly dissapointed.
i know where that is. . . it's in North Dakota
Hater - I hope that is in jest! While living in Alaska I have spent hours painting swirls and dipping 6mm beads into 7mm! I have also tied numerous different flesh flies depending on the time of year and the color of rotting salmon flesh in the water. Fish this big rarely go for dry flies --- imagine how many insects this hog would have to eat to maintain his weight. They feed on salmon flesh and eggs!
Answer me this - would you fish nothing but dry flies when you know that is not in the fishes diet in the area you are fishing? Stop being such a dry fly elitist. I wouldn't sling bunny leeches or flesh flies in the LeTort Spring of Pennsylvania just as I wouldn’t present BWO's to 42" wild rainbows feeding on eggs!
Side note -- one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed while fishing was wild bows headbutting spawning reds to spill their eggs for a quick meal! Awesome!
Not a steely...I cal BS on location of lower 48...that looks like a dead ringer for Kenai River, AK. Steelhead rarely maintain that color - they silver out just as wild bows do when they are lake-runners. He also has some girth in the shoulders - steelhead rarely show this they are more streamlined! Catching a 30+" bow in Alaska is hard but not rare --- 42" is unheard of ! Wow! I would like to hear about the fight - a wild bow will fight diff than a steelhead.
Pend Orielle? It's a damn looper. In Lake Superior they're a bastard stock that fight like garbage. Kill them all!!!
I see a lot of hate here, bottom line any fisherman dreams about catching much smaller fish than this. That is a sick bow and it looks like the lower 48 to me close to where i was raised. Looks like the strain commonly mistaken for a Kamloops. Never seen a Kamloops get that big.
wyohater... take me fishing... I bring sorority sluts and beer
http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/gallery/member-galleries/p40802-idk-what-five-pounder-3f-3f-3f.html
Not a November fish, but one hell of a fish nonetheless...
So how does that work. Can a fish pic over six months old be submitted for SOM? How far back can they go?
Well that is a F***** huge fish!!! Well Done mate! Indeed Slab of the month!!!
42" ???? c'mon Mark.
Nice fish!! Is that a gerrard bow? obviosly lake run spawner! Anyone that thinks that is a steelhead obviosly has never touched one and should probly work on there drift!
strong work son!!!
Dudes.... that fish is RAD, end of story.
Haters, I fished this season with beads along side a bunch of elitests that would only fish "natural patterns." After the first day of 25+ for me and 3 for the one that caught the most on "flies" they all changed over.... nice thing is when you are 100s of miles from a fly shop beads are worth their wieght in gold.... 3 beads for $10, that's the cost of catching pigs.
Bravo, I tip my hat to you sir.
Nice work. Is he back in the river? What size tippet?