henry d Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Found this photo as I was having a sort out of old photos, it was the biggest fish of the day by a large margin as the rest were just small fingerling brownies and it fought like all seatrout, fast and hard all the way to the end. **edit** One of the brownies too for size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytie Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 HD, worm drowning? ft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Perish the thought !!!!! Flies on weighted paternoster type droppers and flyspoons as the only one who brought fly tackle, remember this was onboard a type 42 destroyer, was the First Lieutenant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Brilliant stuff, I keep promising myself a trip down that way fishing - but than again I keep promising myself a lot of trips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Tut Tut a nice fish on dry mud Circa 1985? so I guess you did not need an unhooking mat then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Tut Tut a nice fish on dry mud Circa 1985? so I guess you did not need an unhooking mat then no need for the unhooking mat bet the pan was'nt far away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Mr Crabtree didn't have an unhooking mat As stated, it was probably clonked and eaten anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Circa 1985? so I guess you did not need an unhooking mat then Circa 1982, and it was dead when I took the photo. Yes it was eaten and the cooked flesh redder than any Salmon I`ve ever seen from the diet of krill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 That's a beaut henryd. What did it weigh? The Falklands is supposedly very good for sea trout. It's a great shame about the demise of the sea trout fishing on the west coast of scotland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 That's a beaut henryd. What did it weigh? The Falklands is supposedly very good for sea trout. It's a great shame about the demise of the sea trout fishing on the west coast of scotland. Didn`t get it weighed but it fed 2 of us to the gills and at the time we had been told that there were only Brown trout and a very few of the local "Black trout", which had to be returned, so hooking it was something of a shock. The reason the seatrout are so big is the seas surrounding the Falklands are stuffed with krill, squid and allsorts of goodies for growing predators, we had to empty out the sea strainers up to 3 times a day(night) because the krill etc. were blocking them. The west coast seems to suffer most with these things, but over the past week we have seen lots of seatrout showing in the Tay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Cheers henryd, very rich water. The Sea trout fishing is superb in Patagonia for the same reason I guess. Good news you are getting a run on the Tay. I've just got back from a week in Sutherland, based at Clachtoll and had some great "broonie" fishing on the lochs. Loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Circa 1985? so I guess you did not need an unhooking mat then Circa 1982, and it was dead when I took the photo. Yes it was eaten and the cooked flesh redder than any Salmon I`ve ever seen from the diet of krill. Got to be happy with that only 3 years out it was a nice fish HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maldwyn Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Henry Nice seatrout. I too caught a similar sized seatrout while fishing at 'Swan Inlet' on East Falkland a few years ago. It was the largest out of 21 seatrout caught in an afternoon's fishing. (20 were returned). All caught on a small mepps spinner. On the shooting front, I was lucky enough to spend a few days helping a local farmer with his fox control on Weddel Island when I was there. I'll try and dig out some photos this weekend of the seatrout and patagonian foxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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