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Originally Posted by cajunwader
Bill Garret, a close friend, of Houston told me that in April of 2002 that he caught and released a 11 1/4 lb trout on the East Shoreline. The week before he caught two 10 lb class trout on the same trip. He had them both mounted together on a table mount. He chose to release the 11 pounder and not kill another big fish. Bill targets big trout and will wade all day for 1 bite...
He told me he thought the Lake record was over 12 lbs. He was thinking about the state record from Ponchartrain. True, its a fish story with no proof. I know a new state record trout resides in Big Lake at this time. It will come from Feb thru the first full moon in May. After that they are all spawned out, skinny, and eel like.
Big Lake does not have the numbers of big trout that in the past due to fishing pressure and anglers killed way to many big trout in the past. It will eventually take a toll. Keeping 6 to 8 lb trout will make it more difficult for the 9 & 10 lb sows to show in any great numbers. That's my 2 cents worth... Good Fishing!!!
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I don't agree with that's why we don't have as many big trout is due to pressure and people keeping more big trout
Here is why
Just up till maybe 7 years now people started releasing big trout more and more.....now lots of people release way more trout than ever before in the lakes history
Before this CPR was popular and 15trout limits were in forced big trout were everywhere and common
Terry Shaunessy(sp) and those boys use to box hundreds of 6-9lb trout and back in those days everything hit the box
Big trout are still around but where you would catch just bug trout now you can catch limits of trout due to the over population on trout.
Big trout will not compete for food against smaller fish ,so when you have smaller trout hugging the same bank line big trout love....your big trout are going to move off
Just look how many big trout were caught during 90-2000....and you see a huge drop from 2000-2012 due to limit changes
Nothing else has changed but number of trout getting taken out
The two Hurricane helped the lake more than hurt as we had huge redfish numbers and trout numbers exploded
Pressure is not that's big of a deal because you still have the same guys running big motors while crabbing banks they did years ago...
But weekdays you can almost have the lake to your self in Jan,Feb,and early March
Until we have our limits moved back up you will see big trout numbers keep falling
This is not like Texas where they have no trout , we have a strong estuary and can support and huge number of fish