Every now and then you get a NICE surprise

[Out4Trout]

So 1st off, please dont bash me for the way I lip handled this one. I had no net and was not expecting to catch something of this size in the small stream I was fishing. quick picture and it was off to be caught another day.

I fished Hickory Run in Carbon County for about an hour today and was getting into quite a few wild brookies. Cast into a nice eddie and WHAM, started battle with this beautiful brown. Guessing by his colors a wild but could be a holdover from the Lehigh since they do come up this far where I was fishing.

Either way, a nice surprise on this small stream and made my night.

Tight Lines !!

 

[poopdeck]

Wow, that was a nice surprise. Nice catch.

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

going by the spot pattern, fins and gill plate, im gonna say a holdover. Down right beautiful fish either way.

 

[jacob]

Nice largemouth!

Just razzin ya - saying please isn’t gonna stop me from doin that

 

[JasonC]

Really nice looking fish, congrats!

 

[Millsertime]

Nice brown. I was going to go out tonight also but I opted out last minute. I hate fishing in humidity. Can't wait for real September weather.

Were you wet wading Hickory or did you have waders on? If waders, was it comfortable?

 

[steveo]

Wow! Beautiful fish. Is that the pool at the chapel?

 

[bigslackwater]

Wild...or the best looking holdover I've ever seen.

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Spot pattern is very typical of a stocked brown trout, the fins appear to be of a stocked trout as well. Either way its a beautiful fish that has been in the stream a while (most likely in the Lehigh) and those encounters are what keeps us going back for more.

 

[Wild_Trouter]

Beautiful brown my man! I really dig the copper color that some browns have. I agree that he/she is a stocker, but who cares- I could catch those all day long.

 

[flyflicker]

A nice surprise, tight lines!

 

[henrydavid]

WOW, beautiful brown wild or not, never caught one near that size in the Hickory

 

[outsider]

HOLY CRAP, a big fish in a small stream. Been thinking of taking my son there for a while. Haven't fished it for a long time.