Huge trout on palmerston

Post by **Jale** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:30 pm

Was talking to my buddy Rick this afternoon and he was telling me about an acquaintance of ours that caught an amazing trout on Palmerston on saturday.

He said it was in the local paper.

Looked it up and there he was with a picture...21.4 lbs laker

Here is the link

http://www.newsweb.ca/

Where was this one a couple of weeks ago WIG????

Post by **JimmyBuffett** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:33 pm

Holy $#@#, I guess that one is goin on the wall!

Post by RJ » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:35 pm

Wowzers!!!!!

that is awesome!

RJ

Post by **Moosebunk** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:36 pm

Ohhh well, kiss goodbye that lakes stocking efforts for the next few winter seasons.

Post by **Jale** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:40 pm

You are right Moosebunk!!! the lake will be swamped with people for quite a while now.

Too bad ..was planning a trip there on friday.

Joe

Post by **steve-hamilton** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:48 pm

now i'll preface this with i'm kind a new trout fisherman but, is a 21 lbs laker that big of a fish?

i didn't think it was....but i guess it is? i thought lakers weren't considered big until they pass about 35 lbs?

Still bigger than any laker i've caught!

Post by **Jale** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:06 pm

Steve:

For a small inland lake around here that is a huge fish. It may be ho-hum for someone who regularily fishes lake ontario/erie of any other big water for that matter.

For the people that don't know, Palmerston lake is just outside of Ompah. Only about 4 miles long and heavily fished.

About 2 years ago there was a 22lber caught on silver lake and it was like a city of people the rest of the winter. Let's hope that this doesn't happen to Palmerston now.

Post by **steve-hamilton** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:15 pm

see, i thought it was the opposite.

i was told the average LT grows about a pound a year.

Therefore, you wont find a laker bigger than 30 lbs in Lake Ontario, as they haven't been around much longer than 30 years.

I was then told it was the smaller, inland lakes, that had the bigger lakers.

I guess i had it mixed up.

The record LT didn't come from a Great Lake, did it?

I'm still learning the ins and outs of trout.

Post by **Bear** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:16 pm

WOW

Thats another lake I've yet to try

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:00 pm

That's wild Joe,

A friend at work was just showing me a picture from a local paper which was about 2 weeks old of a 22 pound Laker taken out of Silver Lake

Seems like more people are targeting them or having better luck

Wild

Post by **iankrzyzanowski** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:03 pm

That sure is an incredible laker!!

Bet they werent using a 6inch hole!!!!!

Post by **wolfe** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:18 pm

That's an incredible fish. Wolfie here would have liked to see it put back, but either way, it's a trophy for sure.

W.

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:19 pm

jale6666 wrote: Where was this one a couple of weeks ago WIG????

No kidding eh

Post by **FLOATFISHIN** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:22 pm

Dont Quote me on this, but Im pretty sure I read that the "Record" Laker came from Great Bear Lake in the NWT????

For the size, I think even a 21lber on the GL's is a big fish!!!!

Lakers are ravinous feeders, and I would hate to see the lake pounded like an unwanted.....................I'll stop there

A amazing catch anywhere in my books!!!!

F.F

Post by **SkeinMachine** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:32 pm

LT's are the slowest growing of all the salmonoids,1/2 lb a yr would be more accurate.

That 21 lb LT would be in the 40 yr old range.

Imagine how old those Great Slave/Great Bear 60 + lbers are???

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