A good wild brown

[Brookie]

Fished a TMA in CT today, not one of the major ones. Water level was good, but due to last night's rain, it was slightly murky, but definitely fishable.

Started off catching a few stocker rainbows; I expected these. What I didn't expect was a beauty 19" brown that in my view is a wild fish. Big perfect fins and really nice scales and color. I suppose it could have been put in the river as a small guy and grew to size. Also caught a few small browns with parr marks on them, so I'd like to think the big one was wild anyway.

All in all a pretty good outing. I hooked up to a dozen. Some got LDR'ed and some came to the net. All fish were caught euro-nymphing.

This stream runs through a fairly suburban area, but a short walk upstream, and I felt like I was really away from it all. A nice little find.

Here's the brown:


And a little scenery:


Brookie

[BlackLabel]

Good looking fish and its got the "blue dot" so its a good bet its wild.

[alanb_ct]

That's a great fish! I was happy to see and hear that you caught another quality wild brown. I believe this is at least your third large wild brown from CT rivers this year (including a 23in!!!), and that's a feat that is hard to match. I admire your efforts to locate fish in some little known areas. Thanks for the report.

[np36]

Nice stuff ...

Can someone explain the "blue dot" part of this?

JI

[BlackLabel]

If you look directly behind the fish's eye you will see a faint blue marking. The blue marking is usually a good indication that the fish is wild. However not all wild browns have this marking.

[Silver Creek]

Here's a wild fish from the Madison River with the same marking.

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