High Sierra Trout
Brownzilla
This past August my friend Matt caught this behemoth of a brown trout at Boca Reservoir outside Truckee, CA. It taped out at 36” long with a 26” girth, according to the accepted formula of length X girth X girth divided by 800 this beast weighed an amazing 30 pounds! The fish was spotted chasing 12” hatchery rainbows in the shallows at the inlet of the Little Truckee River. Matt was fishing a Zonker streamer when he thought that he had snagged the bottom. He tugged at the fly a few times, and then he felt some movement. A long battle ensued before the leviathan was finally beached, measured, photographed and then released. Had he kept the thing and had it weighed on a registered scale it would have been a California state record.
Matt is originally from Poland, but has quickly figured out how to catch fish in the Sierras, as well as in more exotic locations. He took a trip to Russia’s Kola Peninsula for Atlantic salmon earlier this year and is traveling to Tierra del Fuego later this winter, lucky bastard. Congratulations Matt on the trout of a lifetime!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
