heh, I forgot about that. You were catching too many fish, it kept screwing up my net :)

My thought in making the post above was that rather than harp on these guys who went out of their way to take video of a big brown, post it here, and release the fish, let's discuss some real things that could be done to catch and release big brown trout more effectively.

Handling a big brown trout is without a doubt harder than handling a big bass. Bass are tough and have a conveniently large jaw to grab hold of. Trout are not very tough, they're hard to grab by the jaw, and they like to twist and roll around. Since c-n-r fishing for trophy browns is not very common, or at least not very talked about, these guys are in some ways pioneers in this area.

I know that of the thousands of fishing articles I've read in the past 15 years, I've never read one specifically talking about how to catch and release big browns. So a possible positive outcome of this post could be that maybe some guys who are familiar with how to handle and release big browns will chime in with some practical advice. That would be a much better outcome than some posts making a one sentence comment criticizing these guys.

Let's push this forward.