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Went out to James bay on 6/29 around 1pm
it was hot so we anchored and just jumped in the water for a swim and carried a fishing pole w/ us. Caught a couple of cats and a couple of stripers on cut anchovies. Man, fighting a fish in water is crazy.
Anyways, what's strange is we caught LMB swimming around w/ a shrimp on the line. And a brown trout on clam meat.
I've never caught a trout before... let alone this time of year, at 50ft depth, w/ cooked clam meat??!!
that's just strange.
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I've landed a few LMB on baits before when I was striper fishing - Squid, mostly.
As far as trout, I've never heard of a brown trout in Mead - maybe it was a rainbow? Some make it through the striper barrage and live deep in the canyon (so I hear), but I have never landed one myself that wasn't directly related to the trout plant.
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Got a SMB on squid. Also found cigarette butts inside a trout when cleaning. Saw on another site the trout had eaten cockleburs.[inline Trout_001.bmp]
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They have Browns in Powell and even a Pike Minnow sometimes.
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I've caught LMB on shrimp out there but have never seen a brown in mead. It's a big lake so I'm sure there are other surprises swimming down there.
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Looked at pictures of some brown trouts... definitely not brown trout. I just assumed so because it didn't have any coloring, as I thought rainbow trout would look like. we didn't take any pictures on the lake, so only pictures of it dead and kinda faded. Even the stripers we got are pale after it died. almost like... we left them in bleach. strange
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Yeah, fish have some amazing colors, but once they are dead, they lose quite a bit of it. Good job man.
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The female brown is actually a silver color unlike the male "Brown"
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Can we belive wiapedia? If so here is what they say.
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_trout"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_trout[/url]
short version......
Freshwater brown trout range in colour from largely silver with relatively few spots and a white belly, to the more well known brassy brown cast fading to creamy white on the fish's belly, with medium-sized spots surrounded by lighter haloes. The more silver forms can be mistaken for rainbow trout. Regional variants include the so-called "[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Leven"][#0645ad]Loch Leven[/#0645ad][/url]" trout, distinguished by larger fins, a slimmer body, and heavy black spotting, but lacking red spots. The continental European strain features a lighter golden cast with some red spotting and fewer dark spots. It is important to remember that both strains can show considerable individual variation from this general description. Early stocking efforts in the United States used fish taken from [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland"][#0645ad]Scotland[/#0645ad][/url] and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany"][#0645ad]Germany[/#0645ad][/url]. The Loch Leven strain is more often found in the western United States, while the "German brown" is found more toward the Midwest and East.
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