Wow - looks like a lunker compared to what few fish I've reeled in here in CO. There are places where they do grow that big (like downstream from the Lake Dillon reservoir), but I have no idea how to catch them - they love the real shrimp-like stuff that comes out of the bottom of the lake and get fat on them.

On one of my most frightening days I caught a rainbow about that big on the Huron River back in MI. It was opening day of catch and release (think very cold thoughts) and I slipped and fell in and my waders filled with ice-cold water. I was in 7th grade fishing with my buddy Tim. It was wall to wall fishermen so I got hauled out but we were quite a ways from the car and I got very cold!

Anyway, I never tried fishing that way again. Largemouth bass from that point forward until I moved out here to CO. I've taken up fly fishing and one of my other fishing buddies from my youth - whom I could out-fish in any lake or creek in MI, now hauls in the little brookies, browns and cutthroats while I strain to get the leader through the eye of the hook! He moved out here about 10 years before me. They are on evacuation notice right now due to the Waldo Canyon fire. I got to enjoy 3 years of an incredible vista on my drive in to work each day. It's now charred black. 346 families have lost their homes, most in a single 1 hour firestorm that was hellish. Several friends from work escaped just in time.

Anyways, back to the fish - that's a beauty!

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