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Caught my first big bull trout on the Blackfoot this year. 30”. No feeling like it. Magnificent fish. Used big streamers. Never even considered using a nymph.
Epic video footage and fantastic angling(not that you needed me to tell you that). The country and rivers you fished were beyond description and I would add that the fishing was just as good. It's so refreshing to watch amazing video footage that is packed with action, refined skill and lots of amazing trophy fish that most avid anglers will never catch. Thanks for landing fish quickly, handling the precious beasts with great care and most of all sharing it with us!
I'll tell ya what. There's nothing that compares to seeing the wake of the causal fin from a monster male bulk trout when you hook into him. This is idealic setting where you would picture a bulk trout living.🎣🐟🌲
I must say they are the most beautiful Bull trout I've ever seen. Would love to know the general region they hail from. Hopefully their genetics are well preserved and maybe used for local hatchery stocking programs.
Great video. I do allot of back country stuff down south in idaho. Haven't yet caught any bulls that big yet though. I see the indicator, are you Nymphing those big guys? Doesn't seem possible. Care to share what's under the bobber? ;)
Bull trout are really landlocked salmon when the ice receded instead of going back to the ocean they just stayed up in the high country! There from the char family. Nice video!
You are correct that they are a char and incorrect that they are salmon, landlocked or otherwise. Bull Trout(char) are taxonomically distinguishable from salmon like all char and the misnomer name of trout seems to have stuck long ago much as it did with Brook Trout, which is also a char. There is a strong belief among fisheries biologists that Bull Trout may have once been anadromous and were once thought to be genetically indistinguishable from Dolly Varden, another char!
@@alan4sure It's been a minute since your question, but I stumbled on it and figured I'll do my best to answer it scientifically. By the way, it's a question that many flyfishers have. In short, yes, Lake Trout are also Char. There are several Char that have become commonly known or named trout. Bull Trout, Brook Trout and Lake Trout are all Char, despite their commonly accepted names. Trout and Char are actually cousins, both being part of the family Salmonidae, but each has its own unique genus and species. The names “trout” and “char” are common names we’ve given these fish over the centuries, and for whatever reason, they’ve stuck. So you are 100% correct that Lake Trout are also Char. A useful way to help distinguish which salmonids are Char and which are Trout based on appearance is: Trout have light bodies with dark spots. Char have dark bodies with light spots and Trout have light bodies with dark spots. These characteristics in addition to geographic distribution, are what distinguishes a trout from a char.
I live in Alberta and yes there are a lot of bulls but not like this. A spot like this would attract so many people and get over fished because we have a limited amount of mountain rivers in southern Alberta where as BC has so many rivers that ones like this can be kept secret.
