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After my fun day on Monday with the native browns I had to try again so I stopped on my way home from work. I landed 5 more browns on the rapala countdown. The first four I released without taking them out of the water. But I had to get a picture of this piggy. I saw this fish flash as I was about to lift my lure out of the water so I dipped my rod tip and the fish inhaled the plug at my feet. What a beautiful fish! Measured 22-3/4" and swam away strong!

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Damn that's a big one. I guess you picked a good lure!

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Browns are not native to NJ. But they are wild from Browns stocked long ago. Great looking fish!
You should thing about getting a net and not putting the fish on the ground like that

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now that is a very nice brown trout. i am glad to see that the trout are doing well in that body of water that you are fishing.. thank you for the cpr on those fish. have you seen any young class fish there? the food seems to be good there by the looks of that fish, it has great colors as well. good for you well done:cool:

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:eek: beauty!

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Gorgeous fish again dude!!! Great colors on that beast!!! Send me the gps coordinates via PM!!! Haha!!!:D

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Yeah what do you think your doing throwing that fish all over the place. How dare you maybe you should get a boga grip and break its jaw while you are at it. :D

Great fish thats not NJ stop bullshitting everyone we all know you were in NY.

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I know where he is, i'm selling the coordinates for $50!

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You think you know LOL
Do you think he's that nuts.
Me on the other I know its in NY

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I don't care if it was caught in Alaska, nice trout !!!

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www.keepemwet.org/#home

Nice fish. Check this site out for proper catch and release practices.

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There have been two people who posted on my catch and release tactics so I guess I will clarify this. I should have put this in my original post but please look closely at my fish where the lure is in its mouth. You will notice there is no line connected to the lure. Why, because I had the fish in the water and while I was reaching down with my hemostats to remove the hook. The fish shook its head and popped my line. So, I had two choices, let the fish swim off with my plug still in its mouth, or grab it and lay it on shore. You'll notice the foam line in the picture because the fish is 6" from the edge of the stream. At that point its already on shore so I took a picture of it. I normally don't remove trout from the water I reach down and unhook them in the water. I will lay a fish on the snow once in a while like I did the other day and take a picture. I know how to handle fish, I know about their slime coat and I know how to tail and revive them. So, thanks for the advice but now you know the whole story. I will go back to lurking because its obviously not worth posting pics. And yes it was caught in Jersey!

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Very nice fish!

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ARush great fish and I know you personally so my comments were just ball bustin as you know. It amazing how many great browns are swimming in our waters and the state still hasn't fixed the hatchery so they can stock them again and create even more waters with them thriving.
You sure you didnt kick that fish back into the water !! Oops I did it again 😁

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No I didn't kick it but I did squeeze it really hard...........:eek:

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People will instinctively think you are not good at CnR judging off photos.

Alternatively I can thwomp the fish on the ground and cover it with dirt before rinsing it all off and taking a pic of the fish in a net and no one will know. :eek:

Don't let it deter you from posting in the future.

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Congrats! Nice colors on the biggun!!

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Beautiful fish! No reason to explain yourself and stop posting just because of a couple of people have to put in their two cents and try to tell other people what to do.

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nice PA troutz.

p.s. those fish are all dead, they were caught on a treble hooked plug, touched the air, and then touched the ground, you're a murderer...nice catching though.

please see this site for proper fish handling: www.PETA.com

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Nice Chris
Thanks for the PETA link
From now on I'm just gonna kill em and grill em and every can kiss my ass, lol

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I've had many a trout or bass or pike or pickerel falloff and flop around. It happens all the time. But you know what? A fish half covered in sand or mud or obviously bleeding or lying on dry ground doesn't look good so I skip the photo. I don't care if its 4" or 44". You grab it, maybe clean it off and throw it back. You can always take a photo for yourself for memories sake. In this day in age of overreaction to the smallest things, if you think it looks even the least bit wrong, don't post it. We all enjoy photos but not when it looks like a nice fish was abused or mishandled or is in obvious distress. Those photos we don't need to see.wet or on we

See thumbnail attached below. This is the best way to take a photo I think. Just support their head and try to keep the rest of the body in the water or at least on a wet surface. This was a colorful wild brown caught a few weeks back.

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Are you saying that Arush's fish looks mishandled ??
It is amazing the same guys post fish all the time and not one post about handling. Someone else posts a great fish and there is all of this.Can't tell you how many bass are being held the wrong way and nothing said. I'm with Arush time to go back to lurking.

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Don't stop posting reports and photos. Ignore the nonsense. Note Royal Coachmans post count. 1 post. Looking to stir the pot. F it dude. He's from the trout board very few people frequent. Consider him schmeg lol

I'm a conscious angler but I fish a lot, alone, at nite. This makes for difficult moments. It's not always easy to CPR without some shake and bake or what have you. If the fish swims off healthy on its own then you did your job.

Nice fish man...

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How somebody with3 whole posts to his credit can parachute in and lecture guys who have been posting here for years redifines unmitigated gall.

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Ignore him.. He is a 1%er fly fishing elitist and is jealous of such a great catch....

Coachman needs to go back to his silly trout board...oh wait it is down...

ARUSH great fish! And keep posting!

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Great fish. Keep on posting! No such thing as bad press:D