**Weekly Contest** Nevada Mackinaw Trout State Record

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[center][#ff0000][size 4]First One To Answer This Question Wins![/size][/#ff0000][/center] [center][#ff0000][size 4]Winner Receives A Proven Lure From Our Tackle Box!!!!!!![/size][/#ff0000][/center] [center][size 4]Lake Trout or Mackinaw[/size]

[size 2]Not as highly colored as other trout. Dark gray or gray-green above, belly light gray or white. Light gray irregular shaped spots or lines on bakc, sides, dorsal fin and tail. No white edging appears on lowe fins as in brook trout. Tail deeply forked. Currently found in Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California, and Liberty and Echo Lakes in Elko County. [/size][/center]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 4]Who holds the Nevada State record for a Mackinaw trout, how much did it weight, what year, and where was it caught?[/size][/font]

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[southernman]

tubedude caught it, 66# 1995 . .

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[nighthawk]

[size 5]Nooooooope![/size] Nice Try SM [cool] but you didn't do your homework. Shame on you for guessing.

That Ain't it

I will post the answer Thursday along with a new contest

Here is what you can still win! Only if you get the [size 7]correct answer![/size]


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[nighthawk]

[center][#800000][size 4]Ok Week 2 Contest is over. [/size][/#800000][/center] [center][#800000][size 4]Nobody got the correct answer. [/size][/#800000][/center] [center][size 5]Mackinaw State Record[/size][/center] [center][size 4]37 Lbs 6 Oz[/size][/center] [center][size 4]Lake Tahoe, NV[/size][/center] [center][size 4]Robert Aronsent[/size][/center] [center][size 4]1974[/size][/center]
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[southernman]

oh darn . . . nice one!

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[TubeDude]

[cool]I saw that fish. I was living in Sacramento at the time, and had a good friend who lived up on Crystal Bay on Lake Tahoe. I was up there to fish with him and he took me to see the fish where it was on display on ice. Man, what a hog. It had a belly that looked like it had eaten a PETA member.

For anyone who has never fished Tahoe, it is an interesting fishery. It is so deep and so clear, that about the only fish taken near the surface are small hatchery pet rainbows, before they wise up and go deep. The macks are often over 200 feet deep, and the more successful locals troll for them with paddle boards wrapped with wire line. They drop down big lures, sweetened with fish meat or whole tui chubs, and dredge the depths. When they hook a big fish, it is truly hand to fin combat as they try to keep the wire line from turning their hands to hamburger while they wind the wire back on the boards. That's how that big boy (girl) was taken.

Hey, Southernman, I appreciate the vote of confidence, on your wild guess. But macks have never been much of a targeted species for my donut dinghy. I'm more of a light tackle, shallow water kinda guy. If the quarry requires a big boat, big tackle and large lures, I don't try to prove how stubborn I am. I use the right stuff for the job.

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[nighthawk]

Hey TubeDude. [shocked]If you got one of those on your line in your tube I bet he just might take you to the depths of the lake and use you to dredge the bottom. Why hell it made be comical to see someone actually get a hold of one on a tube. It might even take a week to land him. LOL
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[TubeDude]

[cool]Actually, "big macks" are wimps compared to some saltwater fish. There have been several macks over 40 pounds landed from float tubes. But, there are many varieties of inshore saltwater and reef fishes that can kick your gluteus maximi (butt cheeks) even though only 1/4 that size.

The problem with trying to power big fish from a donut is that you just don't have the "lift" you get while firmly planted on a boat. It takes only a few pounds of pull to haul the angler over forward into the water. Hooking a big fish on stout tackle, with a hammered down drag will either get you up on plane...on your fins...or pull you right out of your tube.

That being said, I have handled some big fish from a tube or a 'toon. But, it takes skill and a knowledge of your tackle and how to set the drag and how much you can get away with. In a whole lotta cases, I have locked my rod in the right position, leaned back at just the right angle and let the fish tow me around. It really shakes up the power squadron when they see a float tube leaving a wake, under full power and a bent rod.

But, back to macks, there have been several over 40 landed in Utah, on Flaming Gorge. And, I know of a couple of float tubing safari's to Great Slave Lake, in the Yukon (I think), where big macks are in fairly shallow water all year. I heard there was at least one mack over 50 taken from a float tube on those expeditions. They also got into some twenty to thirty pound northern pike. I don't think I would want those slimy, toothy critters climbing in my craft with me.

If you wanna see a couple of pics of other fishies I don't wanna play with, while dunkin my donut, check this link on the Utah board:

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[davetclown]

thats one meen lookin fish,
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