Hi Everyone

I must share this with everyone, I am new to fly fishing and have recently spent some time on Lake Windermere. Although this is a vast expanse of water the rewards for patience can be astounding.

I was fishing one of the many bays on the Lake and caught a monster 9.5lb wild brown trout. If you want to have a look at this fish visit my blog www.guide2flyfishing.com.

Please leave any photos you have as my sons are checking it daily to see if anyone has caught a bigger fish.

Tight Lines!

Mark

This is good news to me mark as i'm going fly fishing/spinningng in Ulswater next week in fact, i'd like to know how big the fish can get to there. I know there are perch and brown trout but i don't know to what sizes. loooking forward to it though as iv'e never fished in the lakes before and i am camping very close to the waters.

Hi Mark
Just had a look at your photo, nice fish.
Hopefully someone who does more trout fishing than me has a look at it because I'd say that was a sea trout that has been out of the sea a week or so.
Here's a link for anyone to have a look

http://guide2flyfishing.com/wp-content/upl...8/07/mark11.JPG

I have seen a brown trout (ferox) that size out of Windermere and it had a mouth not far off the size of a pike's. Real mean looking thing!

Although our lakes ferox often do have large carnivorous mouths it isn't a positive recognition feature. It is sometimes difficult to tell a sea trout from a brownie once it's been in freshwater a while, if that one is a sea trout then i would give it longer than a week in freshwater given its colouring. A quite good way to tell is the colour taste and texture of the flesh, a sea trout provided that it has not languished in feshwater for a long time will have pink flesh and taste wonderful whereas a lake brownie that size will have creamy white flesh and taste awful.

However if you returned the fish thats not much use...did you?

struggling to load it up, what was that on Mark (and is that the mark who fishes aat Pooly Bridge?)

If it is this fish in the photo, I assume it was caught while out-of-season Pike fishing, looking at the dead grass and leafless trees it is obviously late winter. It is not uncommon to catch large trout while dead-baiting for pike.