Yes sorry everyone, I saw the thread and posted to it even though it is a 2013 thread.
These fish were all caught in 2013. I think at that time we had the perfect storm, a very large population, that was very small in size, of chubs. These tigers were able to thrive and had all of the food they could eat. The chubs were easy for them to consume, I noticed in the years that followed that the chubs grew to be to big for the tigers to eat and thus curbing the size of the tiger trout. Then we all know what happened and the lake got unhealthy.
Every once in awhile they gill net a big one but not like they used to have in there. At the time I wasn't aware of the catch and release state record so I ended up beating it two times unknowingly and keeping one of the fish (pictured below).
I was using chub meat on a number 2 J-hook.
Thanks for the kind words. Attached are some pictures of the mount. I put a pen on him for a size comparison.
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These fish were all caught in 2013. I think at that time we had the perfect storm, a very large population, that was very small in size, of chubs. These tigers were able to thrive and had all of the food they could eat. The chubs were easy for them to consume, I noticed in the years that followed that the chubs grew to be to big for the tigers to eat and thus curbing the size of the tiger trout. Then we all know what happened and the lake got unhealthy.
Every once in awhile they gill net a big one but not like they used to have in there. At the time I wasn't aware of the catch and release state record so I ended up beating it two times unknowingly and keeping one of the fish (pictured below).
I was using chub meat on a number 2 J-hook.
Thanks for the kind words. Attached are some pictures of the mount. I put a pen on him for a size comparison.