I was out yesterday for 5 hours. Got a late start because I forgot to plug in the battery on-board charger. Went out of Walnut to fish for steelies. Ran rapala max rap & floating rapalas long line up high. Tried 8-10 fow. Nothing. Tried deeper because I saw some surface activity in the 12-15 foot range. Got a hit on one rod, didn't jump just pulled short drag runs & stayed down. Thought I had a steelie that was playing me for a sucker. Imagine my surprise when I saw brown in the water. Nice 5.5 smallie. Put a third rod out right in the prop wash with a staysee. I knew if I got bit it might make for a mess with three lines out. But I wanted to know if it would work. Heard my spinning reel drag go off & the watched the rod go thumping. Light action rod moderate power figured it would absorb the short line trauma. I was shocked again when I saw brown in the water. It was a 5+ lb brown trout. My first brownie from lake erie. Never caught a steelie. Two bites two fish.

Nice fish Dwight! Did you keep the trout for dinner?

No. I felt sorry for him & let him go. I don't like trout much except the pan sized ones for eating. The thought crossed my mind to try smoking him.

Great catches as always Dwight. One of these days I need to fish Erie.

I fish Lake Michigan with my father in law for salmon, and we usually smoke the fish we get. Stuff it with garlic, lemon, pepper and some salt. It's excellent. I don't care for Great Lakes salmon on the grill or oven though, nor do I eat it that often. I have had one brown trout with a bunch of rainbows before and they were all very good table fare. They were White River trout though, so I'm sure they were tastier than a Great Lakes fish.

Anyway, nice looking fish.

Man what a day! 2 5lb brown fish in the same day! I'd say you had a stellar day!

Jeff

BTW- I wanna come fish there now, not Florida! HAHA

I love brown trout! Nice work.

Nice Job Dwight ~

Keep dropping those way points !

A-Jay

WOW!

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beautiful brown Dwight. Big browns are some of the prettiest fish in my opinion. Just awesome.

Awesome fish. Ive seen trout in the lakes I fish but nothing like that.

Both fine fish.

I love smallies, but when you do get a steelhead I think you'll agree that they are the toughest, craziest fish in fresh water.

You caught some nice fish!

Both fine fish.

I love smallies, but when you do get a steelhead I think you'll agree that they are the toughest, craziest fish in fresh water.

Yes your right a big steelie will light you up!

Both fine fish.

I love smallies, but when you do get a steelhead I think you'll agree that they are the toughest, craziest fish in fresh water.

This is after the fish was done making three runs.

Dang those are nice Dwight... WTG!

beautiful fish! wish we had more smallie lakes by me