05-01-2011, 02:39 PM
Back in the late 80's early 90's, a good friend and I hit a couple lakes Round and Sand lakes? Not sure which. But back then we were poor and our main interest was to catch fish for the table to supplement our pancake diet in the back country. This picture was scanned in. The Largest fish was at my best guess over 18 inches, but it is just a guess as we did not carry a tape measure. We caught well over a hundred fish over 3 days and these were without a doubt the largest fish we caught over the trip. The average size was more like 7 inches. If I knew then what I did now, I would probably have grabbed that fish and taken him directly to a DWR agent and probably been in some kind of record book.
We have made another attempt or 2 at the lake, with nothing over 12 inches to show for it. But knowing what I know now those may have been part of the original fish stocked in those lakes. AHHH!!! To be young again crawling around the mountains!
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We have made another attempt or 2 at the lake, with nothing over 12 inches to show for it. But knowing what I know now those may have been part of the original fish stocked in those lakes. AHHH!!! To be young again crawling around the mountains!
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