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BrogensDuck wrote: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.

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!

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

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

Great pics.

snatch-n-reel wrote:Shallow water and big bait catch the big fish!!!!!!

You must be fishing deep with small baits.

Jumptrout51 wrote:

snatch-n-reel wrote: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?

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 .

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.