{"id":10070,"date":"2023-07-25T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:10:06","slug":"huge-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=10070","title":{"rendered":"“Huge” Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"
I went fishing for speckled trout this morning. I missed some, pulled off a couple and caught five.<\/div>\n
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I get excited catching most any fish from spot to blue marlin. A big speckled trout gets me going as much as any. So, when the fish hit like a freight train and fought like a devil, I admit that I probably got overly worked up. I finally got the fish close enough to see that it wasn’t a drum or a rockfish but rather a huge speckled trout. It had no intention of getting in the landing net. If there had been a witness, he may have heard me talking to…begging the fish: “please get in the net, I’ll let you go, I just want to tag you”. At my 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0failed attempt, I could see that only one tine of a single treble hook was barely holding in the monster’s lip. I knew the hook was going to pull. I may have brought in God at that point, offered him my first born if he would let me catch this fish.<\/div>\n
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The hook pulled…just as the fish swam into the net. It was huge, 28 inches long, maybe even 29!<\/div>\n
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I think that I need a new tape measure. Mine said that the fish was 24-inches. Still, very happy to have gotten it. Beautiful fish that I was very fortunate to catch. True to my word, I released the fish after tagging it.<\/div>\n
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Now, I have to tell my son to stop planning his wedding and that he has to become a priest. I’m sure his fianc\u00e9 will understand. The fish was huge…really big…it was a nice trout.<\/div>\n
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