Good job man fish of a life time when they get that big it's like pulling the plug out of the river bottom straight weight and they do what they want to do you're basically there for the ride until you ware them out
congrats on your record! Wish I could congratulate you on your fishing handling, but its shockingly bad. Dropping it on the boat ramp and having it out of the water is really bad for trout. Particularly big trout. All the best, from a snotty fly fisherman
I agree. It's extremely hard handling a fish that size - I couldn't even get my hand around it's tail! I hated that I dropped it... but I did the best I could, the best we could. It is what it is.
You measured it incorrectly you put the tape on top of the fish and because of the girth that added inches to the overall length. So for all that abuse towards that trout you didn't even get an accurate measurement. To correctly get an accurate length measurement you need to have the tape straight and not curved you needed to put the tape to the fish on top, SO the fish isn't 38". To have done all that to that fish and then not even measure it accurately and taking it out of the water and in that tub is terrible fish handling and fish release. You think you released that fish to live but odds are it swam off and died because you didn't take the time to nurse it back to full strength after all the stress and lack of oxygen you put it through. How long were you driving around with that trout in that tub? Terrible. When you take a trout out of the water the temperature change just from the air exposure is a shock and adds to the stress and shock on the fish. That isn't even accounting for the lack of oxygen it isn't getting. Even a little a few degrees of temperature change of the water or air temperature a sudden change highly stresses a fish. Any aquarist that raises fish whether fish hatchery trout or tropical salt water fish, fresh water tropical fish etc knows that a sudden temperature change can kill your fish. BASS can handle lots of abuse like that but trout are far different they do not take that type of handling well at all. When you stress a trout like that it may still be barely alive but so weak and then you drop it on the ground and only take a few seconds reviving it and give it a shove away. You need to hold a fish and nurse it back to full strength to the point where it is really struggling to get away fighting to pull out of your hand with the tail exerting force twisting and turning really fighting against you holding it shaking and squirming to get away. I have seen far to many trout released on lakes just to swim off a little then roll over and sink to the bottom and die. Nice catch but Bad catch and release scene all around.
For the most part you’re right. It’s easy to go back and see the things we did wrong but how many times does someone handle a fish like this and actually are prepared for it? I can only speak for myself... but I was very nervous, my focus was getting it back in the water at the same honoring the wishes of the angler and the fisheries biologist there. But we were fortunate... he showed up at our dock about 3 weeks later. There’s several videos of him posted along with his friends.
May be... but I'd rather side on releasing it and giving it a chance. Otherwise, dead is dead. Plus, inbetween the fight and releasing it, it was held in a tank for over 2 hours in which is never faltered - never turn on it's side once.
wonderful fish but I was dismayed to see it held out of the water for so long... to be measured and weighed and again for photos before being released... lots of research about keeping fish to be released in the water until lifted out for a few seconds before sliding them back into the water....
@@leauluv Have you ever heard of a state record fish released back to the water? You can probably find studies and fishery biologists that would say the fish was doomed the minute it was netted and I would agree somewhat (and I'm not a biologist). In my 36 years of handling big brown trout (and I've handled 3 brown trout state records now), they stress out super easy during a fight and then add a live well, handling and yes pictures and measuring. You truly don't expect someone to catch a fish like that and not do those things? We did the best we could. We had a Missouri State fisheries biologist there to supervise (Shane Bush). The only thing that I'm going to change in this equation is to buy a scale like the state has, keep it state certified and have it on hand at our dock for the next time a state record is brought in so that it doesn't have to be transported 5 miles to the hatchery.
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Congrats Paul on that remarkable catch and release
Wow what a beautiful blessing. Awesome on the release as well. Thanks for sharing
Incredible brown! It's great that someone else might have the same opportunity to catch it. Kudos!!!
Wonderful story and footage. Congrats!
Great fish. Really great story. You earned that one. Glad to see that release. Thanks, Phil, for documenting and sharing this!
thanks for posting!
That's incredible. Thank you for sharing Phil.
Beast of a fish ... the legend grows
Fish of a lifetime, congratulations Mr. Crews!
Great Video!
I love seeing people catch hoggers and release!!!! good sportsmanship!!!! HELL OF A CATCH!!!
What an awesome fish and its great it was released!
Congrats!
Good job man fish of a life time when they get that big it's like pulling the plug out of the river bottom straight weight and they do what they want to do you're basically there for the ride until you ware them out
One word WOW
congrats on your record! Wish I could congratulate you on your fishing handling, but its shockingly bad. Dropping it on the boat ramp and having it out of the water is really bad for trout. Particularly big trout. All the best, from a snotty fly fisherman
I agree. It's extremely hard handling a fish that size - I couldn't even get my hand around it's tail! I hated that I dropped it... but I did the best I could, the best we could. It is what it is.
Edub 1278 Frank showed up at our dock today. He’s alive and well despite of our abuse.
I'm gonna have too get down to Lilly landing been a few years.
Frank's been around the dock now for about 3 weeks. Today he let me put the GoPro right in his face. ruclips.net/video/heQaSbhLpVA/видео.html
You're the man
That is a huge brown
Thankfully, if it can now pack on about 7 1/2 more pounds, it'll be a world record Brown Trout.
Hopefully, he/she can do it!
It's well on its way.... he was eating trout guts under our dock over the weekend.
Holy cow!
lucky lucky
👍
You measured it incorrectly you put the tape on top of the fish and because of the girth that added inches to the overall length. So for all that abuse towards that trout you didn't even get an accurate measurement. To correctly get an accurate length measurement you need to have the tape straight and not curved you needed to put the tape to the fish on top, SO the fish isn't 38". To have done all that to that fish and then not even measure it accurately and taking it out of the water and in that tub is terrible fish handling and fish release. You think you released that fish to live but odds are it swam off and died because you didn't take the time to nurse it back to full strength after all the stress and lack of oxygen you put it through. How long were you driving around with that trout in that tub? Terrible. When you take a trout out of the water the temperature change just from the air exposure is a shock and adds to the stress and shock on the fish. That isn't even accounting for the lack of oxygen it isn't getting. Even a little a few degrees of temperature change of the water or air temperature a sudden change highly stresses a fish. Any aquarist that raises fish whether fish hatchery trout or tropical salt water fish, fresh water tropical fish etc knows that a sudden temperature change can kill your fish. BASS can handle lots of abuse like that but trout are far different they do not take that type of handling well at all. When you stress a trout like that it may still be barely alive but so weak and then you drop it on the ground and only take a few seconds reviving it and give it a shove away. You need to hold a fish and nurse it back to full strength to the point where it is really struggling to get away fighting to pull out of your hand with the tail exerting force twisting and turning really fighting against you holding it shaking and squirming to get away. I have seen far to many trout released on lakes just to swim off a little then roll over and sink to the bottom and die. Nice catch but Bad catch and release scene all around.
For the most part you’re right. It’s easy to go back and see the things we did wrong but how many times does someone handle a fish like this and actually are prepared for it? I can only speak for myself... but I was very nervous, my focus was getting it back in the water at the same honoring the wishes of the angler and the fisheries biologist there. But we were fortunate... he showed up at our dock about 3 weeks later. There’s several videos of him posted along with his friends.
no way that fish is going to live...
Been seen, videoed many times lately. He did. He has a rooster tail stuck in his dorsal at the moment.
should have kept it. After fighting it for over 20 minutes and then keeping it out of the water for over a minute that fish will most likely die.
May be... but I'd rather side on releasing it and giving it a chance. Otherwise, dead is dead. Plus, inbetween the fight and releasing it, it was held in a tank for over 2 hours in which is never faltered - never turn on it's side once.
wonderful fish but I was dismayed to see it held out of the water for so long... to be measured and weighed and again for photos before being released... lots of research about keeping fish to be released in the water until lifted out for a few seconds before sliding them back into the water....
@@leauluv Have you ever heard of a state record fish released back to the water? You can probably find studies and fishery biologists that would say the fish was doomed the minute it was netted and I would agree somewhat (and I'm not a biologist). In my 36 years of handling big brown trout (and I've handled 3 brown trout state records now), they stress out super easy during a fight and then add a live well, handling and yes pictures and measuring. You truly don't expect someone to catch a fish like that and not do those things? We did the best we could. We had a Missouri State fisheries biologist there to supervise (Shane Bush). The only thing that I'm going to change in this equation is to buy a scale like the state has, keep it state certified and have it on hand at our dock for the next time a state record is brought in so that it doesn't have to be transported 5 miles to the hatchery.
leauluv Frank showed up at our dock today. He’s alive and well despite of our abuse.
James Arl Frank showed up at our dock today. He’s alive and well despite of our abuse.