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Spinney Report (lost a big one)
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Those big browns can be tough to land! My personal biggest is a 17 lb. brown in the remote gunnison gorge, on a #12 panther martin spinner. This was either last year or the year before...not sure? We got some around 10 this year but none above. On the colorado this year I got a 9.75 lb. brown as my biggest and my dad caught an 11 lb. brown 1 1/2 months ago and he still has the deep cut from where it bit him. (bit him on the web of the thumb where it connects to hand, tough spot to heal.)

I remember one trip on the colorado river in late january of this year in particular when I was on the south side at south canyon. I was bouncing a crawler and had just released a few 10" dinks, when I saw my line sway a bit. I set the hook and for 5 minutes I reeled in what felt like a super heavy log that moved a little bit. When it got about 5ft or so from the bank, the fish, a rainbow that would've broken the state record almost certainly, saw me and went on a torrentous (sp) 10 minute or so run. I finally got him back in towards the bank and he saw me again and got scared again. He serged forward and broke my 4 lb. trilene xl. This lesson taught me to switch to 6lb. original stren and to never use the weak trilene again. But of course since then no monsters even close to this one[:/]

Hope you can trick some more of them big old spinney trout!
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Spinney Report (lost a big one) - by NealCO - 11-08-2004, 03:36 PM
Re: [NealCO] Spinney Report (lost a big one) - by TroutFishingBear - 11-09-2004, 02:33 AM

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