{"id":11332,"date":"2025-11-20T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:44:20","slug":"some-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11332","title":{"rendered":"Some Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I drove to the mountains to fish for musky with Blue Ridge Musky<\/span> really early yesterday. Fishing was fantastic for 8 hours then there was the long drive home. I get a message from Stan Simmerman<\/span>, trout fishing in the morning, meet me at 4:15 am. I’m still 3 hours from home. OK. I get there early and Stan is already there waiting for me. I’m too old for this… First light I catch a nice trout. Then it was a slow pick but we put in a day and ended up with a good catch. We caught 18 trout including 5 over 20 inches up to 23.5. Worth being a little tired for. Stan lost a monster. Biggest trout I have ever seen. I was sure he had a rockfish but it was speckled. Somewhere in the 30s inches, double digit weight. Fish shaking its head out of the water like crazy. Lure pulls free before I had a chance to try and net it. I’m not sure that little trout net would have been big enough anyway. We needed my cobia net. I tried to free-net the fish and mostly got it in the net but it did not stay there.<\/p>\n