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Cold Water Fishing Reports => Miscellaneous Cold Water Rivers Streams and Springs => Elk River => Topic started by: wil2hike on November 21, 2007, 09:36:28 AM

Title: Biggest Trout on the Elk
Post by: wil2hike on November 21, 2007, 09:36:28 AM: OK,seriously - no fibbing -what's the biggest trout you personally have seen caught on the Elk? Bait fish, fly, whatever. I've seen large trout in the water (18"+) but caught? Not so much..
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Post by: Steve H on November 21, 2007, 10:23:55 AM: 16" right above the first bend. Otherwise, stockers.
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Post by: David L. Darnell on November 21, 2007, 10:51:02 AM: my best so far on a #24 dry midge ;D

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Title: Re: Biggest Trout on the Elk
Post by: Steve H on November 21, 2007, 11:28:25 AM: LOL ;D
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Post by: MikeA on November 21, 2007, 12:02:00 PM: Oooh myy
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Post by: MikeA on November 21, 2007, 12:02:45 PM: I hear of 6 and 8 pound Browns almost every year.
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Post by: David L. Darnell on November 21, 2007, 12:47:07 PM: 20" Football Pig Rainbow just upstream from the paint ball on the right under the submerged tree trunk that sticks out from the bank. Can't get no closer than that ;) on a Classic Streamer, Sept 1996.
Title: Re: Biggest Trout on the Elk
Post by: reddog on November 21, 2007, 05:15:05 PM: 4 1/2 lb brown about 15 years ago. Since then a 20 inch football rainbow 2 years ago. I have not seen many large fish there in years.
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Post by: Steve H on November 22, 2007, 07:51:01 PM: Welcome reddog! ;D
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Post by: Luke Warmwater on November 25, 2007, 06:01:22 PM: Woodsman, you are really good with Photoshop. How did you get your face, on my body, with my fish?

I almost forgot there are no trout in the Elk and certainly not any big ones. It's all shiners in there....
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Post by: David L. Darnell on November 25, 2007, 09:18:13 PM: snakes are real bad, plus the occasional Puma.

Was told today at work today about a coworker who is on weekdays, he caught a 19.5" just shy of 5 lb this past week on the Elk.
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Post by: roberts618 on December 13, 2007, 03:49:14 PM: Back in the summer while on a float trip, I took an 18" RB using out of one of the watercrest bubble lines using a San Juan worm. One the same day, took a 14" Brown who was much more of a fighter on one of Tim Page's Trout Candy.
Title: Re: Biggest Trout on the Elk
Post by: adamtn on December 13, 2007, 05:56:39 PM: I've caught a few in the 16-18" range, mostly bows. I was fishing at ferris one day and saw a guy catch a nice 3-4 pounder from above the bridge. It may have been a brood fish though a friend who worked at the hatchery told me they had released several there the week before.

Anytime someone asks about the elk i have to tell them about the trout candy. If you don't try one of those on the elk you ain't tryin
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Post by: dleo6446 on December 13, 2007, 09:01:25 PM: ADAM!!!! Are you back now man?? hope so!!

Leo
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Post by: adamtn on December 14, 2007, 12:40:22 AM: i'm still in colorado. Three feet of snow last week and i'm still fishing. I'm not catching much but i'm fishing. I will be in tennessee in february to visit my family and my river.
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Post by: grumpy on December 14, 2007, 08:14:31 AM: I've had many conversations with TWRA's shocking crew on the Elk & no they wouldn't let me tag along >:(
There are some big browns on the Elk & quite a few, they aren't at the walk-in spots though :-\
Adam, good to hear you aren't letting a lil snow keep you from fishing.

Grumpy
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Post by: roberts618 on December 14, 2007, 10:16:14 AM: I forgot to mention in my earlier post, that I saw a 24" Brown that caught above Ferris Creek Bridge back in the summer. It was still alive when the fisher from Fayetteville (that is all I know about him) took his canoe out there.

This fish was a 'hog' in the true sense of the word. It was still alive when I saw it but unfortunately it was going in the man's freezer.

He told me he caught it with a Beatle Spin minus the spin. Of course I rushed to Wal-Mart and bought $20 worth. I have only caught one small trout on that system below the Tim's Ford dam despite trying them several times.