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| Chris_3g | November 21st, 2007, 3:19 pm | |
| Ithaca, NY Posts: 35 | I nabbed a 14-15" female brown (my first lake run) and headed upstream to land this mean looking dude, both on a streamer I tied, which makes things that much more satisfying. I don't have a tape, but scaling from the photograph puts this guy at 20-21". It was definitely a change from the 8-10" rainbows I've been catching over the past few weekends. Chris. | |
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| Martinlf | November 21st, 2007, 4:38 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 905 | Nice fish. Interesting about the lamprey mark. | |
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| Grannom | November 21st, 2007, 5:03 pm | |
| Northwest PA Posts: 53 | Gorgeous brown...It is rare the we get a lake run in Erie... | |
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| Shawnny3 | November 23rd, 2007, 9:40 pm | |
| Pleasant Gap, PA Posts: 541 | A HEAVY 20-21", I'd say. Nice fish, Casey. Too bad they stopped the lamprey treatments in Cayuga before they were finished. Idiots. -Shawn | |
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| Smallstream | November 28th, 2007, 10:57 pm | |
| State College, PA Posts: 95 | very nice! are those fish wild or fingerlings or do they actually stock brown trout in the lake? | |
| Chris_3g | November 29th, 2007, 6:52 pm | |
| Ithaca, NY Posts: 35 | Hey Smallstream. This year the NY DEC stocked 24,960 eight to nine inch browns in Cayuga Lake, and they did the same last year. They also stock comparable numbers of landlocked salmon and lake trout. I don't know whether this guy was wild or stocked, but he's been around long enough that I would respectfully refer to him as wild. Chris. | |
| Shawnny3 | November 29th, 2007, 8:05 pm | |
| Pleasant Gap, PA Posts: 541 | Oops, I congratulated the wrong guy. Congratulations, CHRIS. Glad to see there are still a few big ones in Cayuga. I've heard bad things about it for the past several years. My dad, who used to be a daily lake fisherman in late Spring, went no more than a couple of times last year. -Shawn | |
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| Davez | December 7th, 2007, 8:14 am | |
| Pennsylvania Posts: 59 | nice fish. 10 years ago that place rocked. landlocked atlantics and browns in the most "landable" sizes and lots of them too. I've heard its pretty BAD these days with crowds. and its a small stream. he looks better than 20" to me, but what he lacks in length surely makes up for in attitude and girth! Nice fish. | |
| Wbranch | March 15th, 2008, 8:09 am | |
| Starlight PA Posts: 230 | That looks to be a huge 20" - 21" brown - maybe Chris is too modest looks like it could be 22" - 23". | |
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