12-19-2014, 06:31 PM
[quote cpierce]
Seriously, a beautiful fish! Thank you for sharing it. I like whitefish. To me they are a grayling with a height challenged fin.[/quote]
I agree. I have never understood why some fly anglers don't like them. They fight hard, readily hit flies, can be a challenge to land due to their small mouths and they like to bite in the wintertime, when the trout are sometimes sluggish.
RE"The next several months on the Lower Weber is the easiest time to pick up big whites. I'm sure most years fish bigger than the listed record are picked up. Now be warn you have to release a lot of big browns and an occasional record size sucker to get land some of those bigger whities so it's not as easy as it sounds."
Dang, what a bummer catching big browns and monster suckers. ;-)
When I was in college, I would hit the middle Weeb a lot and caught plenty of whities there. In the day, the whitie numbers on the middle Weeb was as high as anywhere, but they seemed to only be about 14-16 inches. The lower one got, the bigger the fish, but with lower population densities. Sadly, getting to the Lower Weeb isn't easy for me now, time wise.
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Seriously, a beautiful fish! Thank you for sharing it. I like whitefish. To me they are a grayling with a height challenged fin.[/quote]
I agree. I have never understood why some fly anglers don't like them. They fight hard, readily hit flies, can be a challenge to land due to their small mouths and they like to bite in the wintertime, when the trout are sometimes sluggish.
RE"The next several months on the Lower Weber is the easiest time to pick up big whites. I'm sure most years fish bigger than the listed record are picked up. Now be warn you have to release a lot of big browns and an occasional record size sucker to get land some of those bigger whities so it's not as easy as it sounds."
Dang, what a bummer catching big browns and monster suckers. ;-)
When I was in college, I would hit the middle Weeb a lot and caught plenty of whities there. In the day, the whitie numbers on the middle Weeb was as high as anywhere, but they seemed to only be about 14-16 inches. The lower one got, the bigger the fish, but with lower population densities. Sadly, getting to the Lower Weeb isn't easy for me now, time wise.
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