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Rainbow trout fishing
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Date: 2020-12-08Story: Im fishing while I traveling and I caught this trout in saltwater by mouth of Kaituna River in New Zealand. Locals got really surprised by my catch. Some old guy told me he never seen someone catch trout there in 30 years. It was an unexpected day of fishing. “Catching trout with squid in saltwater…â€Location: Maketu, Tauranga New Zealand
Date: 2020-12-08Story: Im fishing while I traveling and I caught this trout in saltwater by mouth of Kaituna River in New Zealand. Locals got really surprised by my catch. Some old guy told me he never seen someone catch trout there in 30 years. It was an unexpected day of fishing. “Catching trout with squid in saltwater…â€Location: Maketu, Tauranga New Zealand
Date: 2016-05-05Story: 1st fish of the year. Hopefully some bigger ones in the future. Caught 5 rainbow trout in the first hour of light on opening day. Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2016-01-27Story: A great day fishing for some beautiful views and a couple fish in the rocky mountains of British ColumbiaLocation: Whiteswan provincial park BC
Date: 2016-01-05Story: This spot looked like the perfect run. Slack water, foamy seams, riffles, bends, over cut bank. Should have pulled 10 fish out of here. Not even a bite.Location: Crowsnest Pass, AB
Date: 2015-12-12Story: Flayfishing the Crowsnest river for rainbow trout.Location: Crowsnest Pass, AB
Date: 2015-12-12Story: Evening Trolling. A fish every 200 yards or less.Location: Fishing Lake, SK
Date: 2015-07-03Story: Caught with my Super Jumbo Mosquito fly. A decent 12″ rainbow trout.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2015-06-30Location: Bow river Calgary Alberta
Date: 2015-06-23Story: Not a huge fish but caught 27 rainbow trout in two hours on the amazing Super Jumbo Mosquito fly.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2015-04-10Story: The best fish of the day. Caught on a prince nymph.Location: Crowsnest River, AB
Date: 2014-05-07Story: Hardly big enough to make my 4 wt bend but I will take anything when it is 0 degrees out.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2013-08-01Story: My dog is helping to land a small rainbow trout. When the fish get hooked and jump she swims after them and follows them to shore.Location: Saskatchewan
Date: 2013-07-30Story: My son casting for trout at Slocan Lake BCLocation: Slocan Lake, BC Canada
Date: 2013-07-29Story: My daughter and I went fly fishing today. This one was not the big one.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2013-06-21Story: Caught about 20 or more little rainbows today, first day of summer. Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2013-06-07Story: The first of 13 rainbows I caught in about 45 minutes this morning.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2012-06-21Story: first rainbow trout of summer 2012, caught on a fly rod with a copper john nymph fly, measured just under 11 inchesLocation: Saskaton
Date: 2012-05-25Story: Caught this first rainbow of the year on a bead headed nymph, plus caught a few more. It’s not worth making a meal out of but it’s more than the guys with the cheese chucker rods caught.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2012-03-24Story: I think they may want fishing lessons.Location: Alberta Rockies
Date: 2012-03-24Story: That’s where the Golden Rainbows are, boys!Location: Alberta Rockies
Date: 2012-03-24Story: Ah, the elusive Golden Rainbow. Had to ‘chopper in, got snowed in (Aug 25th of ’07) and had to spend an extra night – oh, darned!Location: Alberta Rockies
Date: 2011-07-04Story: Caught about 4:30 am on the first day of summer just as the summer sun was making it’s appearance.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2011-07-04Story: Caught this little rainbow trout on the first day of summer, 2011. Not a big one but one of many. Best part was the sunlight was still useable at 10:30 pm.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2011-05-25Story: Spring fishing with my son at Swan Lake, Alberta east of Grande Prairie.Location: Swan Lake, Alberta
Date: 2011-04-26Story: Hard to fish with this distraction.
Date: 2011-04-09Location: grande prairie ab
Date: 2010-09-28Story: caught on a tan caddisLocation: St. Mary River, AB
Date: 2010-09-21Story: Oh Great Tim, what manner of man are you that can summon up fish without flint ot tinder?Location: Idaho
Date: 2010-09-21Story: More S. Fork – Clearwater steelheadsLocation: Clearwater
Date: 2010-09-21Story: Weekend of fishing with family, steelhead and flyrods… That first pic was a quick stop on the Little Salmon, the rest are on the S. Fork/Clearwater… Location: S. Fork – Clearwater
Date: 2010-09-21Story: Weekend of fishing with family, steelhead and flyrods… That first pic was a quick stop on the Little Salmon, the rest are on the S. Fork/Clearwater… Location: S. Fork – Clearwater
Date: 2010-09-21Story: Weekend of fishing with family, steelhead and flyrods… Scott has some more pics of the trip and fish he landed on his camera but I don’t have them yet. That first pic was a quick stop on the Little Salmon, the rest are on the S. Fork/Clearwater…Location: Little Salmon
Date: 2010-09-07Story: Floating dries on the St. Mary riverLocation: Lethbridge, AB
Date: 2010-09-07Story: Caught on a tan colored caddis fly on the St. Mary river.Location: Lethbridge, AB
Date: 2010-09-07Story: St. Mary rainbow trout, caught 7 rainbows dry fly fishing south of LethbridgeLocation: Lethbridge, AB
Date: 2010-05-17Story: Tim the Wizard displays the fine art of fish juggling.Location: Stanley, ID
Date: 2010-04-30Story: fly fishing
Date: 2010-04-30Story: It may not be a fish picture but it is a really cool picture anyway.Location: Snake River, Idaho
Date: 2010-04-23Location: Idaho
Date: 2010-04-23Location: Idaho
Date: 2010-04-23Location: Idaho
Date: 2010-02-10
Date: 2009-09-16Location: Quesnel B.C.
Date: 2009-08-31Story: Rainbow cought near NipawinLocation: Nipawin
Date: 2009-07-04Location: twin lakes rocky mnt house
Date: 2009-07-01Story: The first and smallest rainbow of the day.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2009-07-01Story: casting a caddis fly with a slow retrieve. Caught 5 rainbows, 9 – 10 inches each, in a n hour.Location: Saskatoon
Date: 2009-05-31Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Date: July 2000Story: Friday afternoon on Lake Diefenbaker with my daughters Amanda and Melissa. We caught this 19″ rainbow about a 1/2 mile from the fish farm.Location: Lake Diefenbaker
Date: October, 2000Story: Terry Wiebe, Michele ResevoirLocation: Michele Resevoir, AB
Date: July 2000Story: Amanda pulled this on in from the same spot, but didn’t want to touch it!Location: Lake Diefenbaker
Date: July 2000Story: Melissa with her second rainbow of the day.Location: Lake Diefenbaker
Date: July 2000Story: Casting from shore, using a pickerel rig and lime green power bait. A pretty good tasting 16″ rainbow. I tried for a few hours with my fly rod and about 10 different flies that day but no luck.Location: Lake Diefenbaker
Date: July 2000Story: This gentlemen was fishing just off a point about 1/2 mile from the fish farm. He was kind enough to let PrairieOutdoors.com take his picture with a nice rainbow trout caught that evening.Location: Lake Diefenbaker
Date: Sept 2000Story: Mick, I was visiting my friends at their campsite for the day, relaxing in my chair. It was too windy to fly fish very much so we tossed in some rigs with minnows. We caught about 5 rainbows, all 1 to 2 pounds and had a good bar-b-que’d shore lunch.Location: Blood Indian Reservoir
Date: Sept 2000Story: Eldon Wiebe, A two and a half pound rainbow. This one was caught on my 8 weight fly rod using a brown wooley bugger I tied the night before. Good thing I had my heavy rod as the fish weeded me and I had to yank it out. Lighter tackle and I would have lost my lunch.Location: Blood Indian Reservoir
Date: June 2001Story: Kyle Kurytnik2.5 lb Rainbow TroutBuffalo Pond, SKLocation: Buffalo Pond, SK
Date: Father’s Day, June 2001Story: Brett Sonntag, Rainbow Trout, Buffalo Pond, SKLocation: Buffalo Pond, SK
Date: Father’s Day, June 2001Story: Kyle SonntagLocation: Buffalo Pond, SK
Date: Father’s Day, June 2001Story: Brett SonntagLocation: Buffalo Pond, SK
Date: April 2000Story: Terry Wiebe, The snow had just fallen the night before. It was still cold out but we decided it would be a good day for fly fishing anyway. My brother and I where were casting from shore for about 45 minutes with little success. Then I tied on a red-headed leech and two casts later, I had a strong hit. It ran 4 or 5 times, each time it got near shore. After about 5 or 6 minutes, I landed the 18-1/2 inch rainbow. First of the year and best of the day.
Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Date: April 2000Story: Galen Sonntag, Got one on the line, fly fishing from shore on the north end of Blood Indian Reservoir in Alberta (picture #1). It wasn’t real big, about 14″, but it was feisty (picture #2). Caught with a brown woolly bugger. Later in the day we would catch some large rainbows just across the lake from our belly boats, but, no pictures. Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Date: April 2000Story: Galen Sonntag, Got one on the line, fly fishing from shore on the north end of Blood Indian Reservoir in Alberta (picture #1). It wasn’t real big, about 14″, but it was feisty (picture #2). Caught with a brown woolly bugger. Later in the day we would catch some large rainbows just across the lake from our belly boats, but, no pictures. Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Date: April 2000Story: Butch Demer, Using a red headed egg sucking leach and casting from shore, I pulled in this 18″ rainbow. It ran at least 3 times for 20 to 25 feet each time. We put him in the bucket and had him for supper that night, along with BBQ moose roast, potatoes, and a hearty supply of beer and rum. The next day the weather was a little warmer and the fish got real active, especially from 6 to 8 pm. Many smaller rainbows were caught that evening.Location: Blood Indian Resevoir
Date: October 2000Story: Terry Wiebe, A good catch of Rainbows, all within an hour of action!Location: Michelle Reservoir
Date: July 2004Story: Galen Sonntag. Here’s two pictures of the same fish. A nice 18″ rainbow trout caught using a double nymph rig. This rainbow took the stone fly nymph which was the bottom fly, attached 18″ below a san juan worm with a strike indicator at the top of the 9 foot leader. We put this one, and the other 10 fish we caught this day, back in to the river.Location: Read the full story in the Journal.
Date: July 2004Story: Galen Sonntag. Here’s two pictures of the same fish. A nice 18″ rainbow trout caught using a double nymph rig. This rainbow took the stone fly nymph which was the bottom fly, attached 18″ below a san juan worm with a strike indicator at the top of the 9 foot leader. We put this one, and the other 10 fish we caught this day, back in to the river.Location: Read the full story in the Journal.
Date: July 2004Story: If you can’t read the name of Ian’s boat, it is the “I’m Gonna Miss Her”.Location: Bow River, Alberta
Date: July 2004Story: If you can’t read the name of Ian’s boat, it is the “I’m Gonna Miss Her”.Location: Bow River, Alberta
