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So I found out from a guy at work he had never been fishing, in his life, EVER. I had to do something about that but didn't want to have to go really far or have the chance of him getting skunked on his first try. I decided the safest bet would be to take him to Tibble Fork because it has a ton of fish even if they aren't huge, or so I thought  We got up there at early light and had our limits by 8:15 with a few thrown back to boot. These were my 4, surprisingly decent rainbows for a small stocked reservoir.
So... the reason for the post: Once the lights turned on a little more I walked some of the shoreline and couldn't believe my eyes when I came upon a dead floating brown trout. He had the hook jaw and was really big. I pulled him out of the lake and broke my 6# test leader at the shoreline. He smelled REALLY bad but thought you guys might get a kick out of the fish and maybe someone could explain how something that big ended up in that reservoir. Also, tell me if there is even a chance someone has caught ANYTHING half that size there. Measurements were 28" 10#. NUTZ is all I have to say, just NUTZ!
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Holy Crap! I have heard there are a few of those in there... Never fish it myself.
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I dont think thats a fish....
thats a gangster looking brown
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Thats actually smaller(+/-)(<--means about the same size!) to the one I had hooked there, about 4-5yrs ago...night fishing with flies. They're there. At that lake ya don't catch 'em that big in the daylight, I can almost guarantee. But if ya do...day or night...LET 'EM THE HELL GO!! Please. Just asking for their sake! Keep the slimer bows...LOVE THAT LIL LAKE.
There were some SCUBA divers there one day yrs ago, and they said that alot of the fish were big browns of all sizes. Some monsters, so they said...whatever that is. But the lake is fairly deep, so...
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That's what I'm talking about. Thanks! I was thinking for fish to get that big they must only eat at night and not when all the knuckle-heads are lobbing their casting bobbers the size of mini footballs. Good to know.
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There are some monster browns in a few of those stocked ponds. They eat the planters and get huge. So if you go after them use a large minnow pattern.
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I did have to laugh that you comment on how bad it smelled, and then you took the picture holding it. Too bad you couldn't just put something next to it for a size reference. Say, maybe a water bottle or something? [ ]
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Ha. If I would have smelled it before that picture I would have let it be. Just nasty on my hands for way too long is all. Pretty gross for a picture, it was for a bft sacrifice.
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Haha I really didn't expect you to be holding the smelly fish.... That made my day.
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Back in the 70s there used to be quite a few Big Browns in Tibble. It was hard to get them to hit anything but they could be seen cruising the moss beds in the summer. There was a 9 lber caught back then so its possible there are still a few in there. There are browns in the river so if they get to the lake and set up housekeeping they can get big.
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dam dude i was up there a 2 weeks ago and got stunked
but anyway my dad always told me this story about this old guy that was fishing at tibble fork and would fish with a 5inch rapala and would not catch a fish all day, one day my dad went up there and that same guy was there catching nothing in his little float. and cought a 15 pound + brown!!!! and every time that guy was up there! and he told my dad that he should us rapala in a little boat and you will hook up with a big one.
it that how you got him
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It looks like a planter, by the fins and tail..The DWR plants some each year after the fall hits..
Many of them die from stress..
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No tackle needed, he was dead when I found him.
My favorite thing for these stocker ponds is a slide weight above a swivle, with 6 # floro leader about 16" to the smallest circle hook I can find(laser sharp), then I put two berkley gulp floating salmon eggs on the hook and toss it out there on the bottom, watching the line for movement. Works like a charm everytime.
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I was thinking brood stock by the looks too.
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It might be a brood stock, but I doubt it. The rays in the fin are in fine shape and the fins are one of the first things to go on a deteriorating fish. Especially one that deteriorated. Lots of those spring lakes regularly hold browns in that class. They eat stocked rainbows.... Just like at other reservoirs.
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Okay you win the pissing contest your a pinion is all that should be said ...
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Hello bassrods. How are you doing? Good I hope. I am a little worried about the address to my contrary opinion. I should be apologizing firstly if you took offense.
I apologize profusely.
Nothing personal. Your opinion matters if for no other reason then you are probably much older and wiser than, I. Please don't take it personally. I value everyone's opinion. Wrong, right, or in between. Your selection of "words" is a bit demeaning. I mean no disrespect. Thanks for the time.
I often have several opinions just like you... Not all of them are right either. In fact I just might be wrong more often then not. I only question that so I might be right more often.
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I actually agree with you - nothing really that points to it being a brooder but it still could be.
There are a lot of browns that get big you are right and often at the expensive of other trout.
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I agree. It looks legit to me.
I've also heard the local legends of huge browns in there for awhile, plus the stocking report shows no brood stock being planted there in the last 5 years, likely more.
I'm thinking the fungus helped kill that brown though. It looks to be somewhat fresh too, considering all the color it still has, aside from the lesions.
Man, what a cool fish. Love that mouth.
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Thanks for the answer LOAH. I tried to look it up and it doesn't say they didn't put Brood in Tibble either. Google broodstock in Utah and for some reason Tibble comes up.
I would guess that Brown is around maybe 5 years old, wouldn't you?
There most definitely could be some large Brown, but got to ask yourself, why was this one belly up. If anyone was lucky enough to hook this, it would have been taken I would think.
But a brood could go belly up and do all the time.
Just a thought.
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