point me toward the big trout

[Atticus]

A friend of mine had a very simple rule about catching big trout:
"If you want to catch big trout, go red fishing." There seems to be some merit to that.

I am by no means an expert but I agree with this philosophy. Go refishing and throw something that at least has some plastic on it. That would be my simplified advice.

[lordsfisher]

What do you call a "big trout"? In other words, when can I brag on here about one?! ha ha I caught one last time out that was 3 or 4 lbs. and 22". For me that was a big trout. I've caught a couple over 5 lbs and thought they were huge!

[wevans]

Anything over 24 inches is a big trout they don't merit huge till they get over 27 inches

[tilldawg]

Here are a few others I caught in the last couple of years:









Here are some caught by my friends on my boat:








The vast majority were caught on 1/8 oz jigs with shad talis or gulp shrimp.

The rest on topwaters

[Reel Cowboy]

Great pics.

[Jumptrout51]

Shallow water and big bait catch the big fish!!!!!!

You must be fishing deep with small baits.

[tin can]

Shallow water and big bait catch the big fish!!!!!!

You must be fishing deep with small baits.

Where have you been fishin for the past year?

[Charles]

Disregard everything I've ever said about big trout. Given my lack of performance in actually being able to catch such a trout when I want one not only do I obviously have no idea, my advice is worth .

[red_yakker]

Some say the big ones are out deep, some say they are in shallow water. From my experience, the biggest ones are caught in extremely shallow (1-2 feet) around creek and river mouths. But I agree, if you catch a monster, you need to move on. The big guys don't normally hang out together (unless it's low-tide and you've got a bunch of em trapped in a hole somewhere).

And while I do agree that big baits catch bigger fish, big fish will usually eat anything you throw at em. I prefer to finess it.