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Not a steelhead...but... look at the size of this thing!


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#1 frozenfire

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 12:57 AM

Went out to my favourite river today with a friend in hopes that the recent rain moved some fish around.
We hit quite a few small shakers, but this fish totally made the trip for me.
Notta_steeler... you'll appreciate this one :D

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My float dropped quick on the hit. I set the hook into what I assumed to be a huge log hugging the bottom of the river. This log soon started to move and I finally realize there is actually a fish on the other end of my line.
The fight starts when the fish surfaces and realizes it's hooked. Was quite the battle. At first, I thought I had hooked into a carp, but was pleasantly surprised to see it was a beauty redhorse.
It blew my mind how big it was. Being used to the smaller size of the white sucker, this one just seemed gigantic.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:08 AM

Using Worms?

*SMILES*



What a beautiful fish!

BIG ...BIG unexpected beasty ... which makes it evern more memorable.

Gotta absolutely love the possibilities that ontario waters offer.



An "indicator fish" like the Red Horse Suckers .... shows the waters are doing well.

I'd say that one is a RECORD!



I thought it was a Carp for sure.

Nice post and great pic of a BEAUTY of a FISH!



Hope you nail many more of them.
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#3 Majstor

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:10 AM

wow thats huge very nice :smile:
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#4 frozenfire

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:11 AM

Thanks Blair.

Worms didn't produce anything today.

This fish sucked in a jumbo chartreuse roe bag.
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 09:44 AM

Hit a bunch of suckers like that with Notta yesterday man are they ever tough to move. Sometimes we thought we had bottom, others we thought we had steel. Too bad we didnt take any pics of them for this thread but they were TANKS too!
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#6 m_van

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 10:00 AM

That is a beautiful fish Frozen!
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 10:31 AM

Beastly!
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#8 CJR

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 11:30 AM

wow, what a tank of a sucker! lol. They're a lot of fun.
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#9 Brian

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 12:39 PM

the water looks great...
I can see why you thought it was a carp at first; that sucker is hugeee...
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#10 NOTTA STEELER

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 08:48 PM

Nice one ... we hook into a couple of those a day . Like NADO said we slammed into a few on Saturday , the bottom does move in strange ways .
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 11:16 PM

Went out to my ........



This very well could be a record! You should have weighted that
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#12 Spinninreel

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Posted 22 April 2012 - 11:24 PM

What a lunker! It is surprising how well some of those suckers fight. Congrats.
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#13 openfire

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 04:27 AM

Very nice job frozenfire.

I've never personally seen such a big sucker! :blink:
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#14 MichaelAngelo

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 01:55 PM

Absolutely SPECTACULAR! Oh the wonderful rewards of exploration :D

Also thought it was a carp on first glance.
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