Biggest Trout Of My Life
 

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I was fishing the mouth of oyster bayou one WINDY day last spring. The tide was rushing in and being pushed by a 25mph south wind. I saw some mullet up on the shell corner on the left side going into the bayou. As I was drifting up to it I heard a splash and looked up and saw a huge fish flopping on the bank. I thought it was a red but upon further examination realized it was the biggest trout I had ever seen. I fired up the motor a ran the boat up to the shells and jumped out and grabbed her. She was just a hair over 29" and fat as hell. Took some quick pics and released her. I'm guessing close to 9#. I've caught 4 right at and barley over 7lbs and this girl made them look small. Wish I had a scale that day.

Nice Trout, and you caught it with your hands. Thats pretty cool.

Trout Noodler

I had always heard trout didnt get that big by being stupid. I guess we need to re-evaluate that statement. You saved her life lol

She Seriously was 3 feet up on the bank she crushed that mullet with some force. I figured the trot gods would bestow good karma upon me for releasing her. Hasn't happened yet. Numbers but not size. I have t caught one over 6 in 2 years. I wish i would have had a scale. Her gut was huge like they had 12" mullet in it. I'm sure she was well over 8.

Can't be .......same spots as one I caught........







seriously......nice fish man

congrats on the release---i know where i'd be fishin for a while! had a friend do something similar with a flounder at the edge of the surf---he released it into the grease.

A Flounder would have received the same fate of grease bath or maybe a oven sauna.

Nice 1!

Too bad the star tournament wasnt goin on! Lol

Coulda entered the live release Calcutta and everything lol

That's frickin crazy but cool as hell

Crazy story, what I got out of that is big trout bite in heavy winds..

The waves and current were crushing on to that point and they had some big 10" mullet holding really tight on it.

Wow, glad you released her. That surely is crazy.

What a fish story. Helluva fish!!