Not a steelhead...but... look at the size of this thing!

[frozenfire]

Went out to my favourite river today with a friend in hopes that the recent rain moved some fish around.
We hit quite a few small shakers, but this fish totally made the trip for me.
Notta_steeler... you'll appreciate this one

My float dropped quick on the hit. I set the hook into what I assumed to be a huge log hugging the bottom of the river. This log soon started to move and I finally realize there is actually a fish on the other end of my line.
The fight starts when the fish surfaces and realizes it's hooked. Was quite the battle. At first, I thought I had hooked into a carp, but was pleasantly surprised to see it was a beauty redhorse.
It blew my mind how big it was. Being used to the smaller size of the white sucker, this one just seemed gigantic.

 

[Blair]

Using Worms?

*SMILES*



What a beautiful fish!

BIG ...BIG unexpected beasty ... which makes it evern more memorable.

Gotta absolutely love the possibilities that ontario waters offer.



An "indicator fish" like the Red Horse Suckers .... shows the waters are doing well.

I'd say that one is a RECORD!



I thought it was a Carp for sure.

Nice post and great pic of a BEAUTY of a FISH!



Hope you nail many more of them.

 

[float^drifter]

wow thats huge very nice :smile:

 

[frozenfire]

Thanks Blair.

Worms didn't produce anything today.

This fish sucked in a jumbo chartreuse roe bag.

 

[NADO]

Hit a bunch of suckers like that with Notta yesterday man are they ever tough to move. Sometimes we thought we had bottom, others we thought we had steel. Too bad we didnt take any pics of them for this thread but they were TANKS too!

 

[m_van]

That is a beautiful fish Frozen!

 

[RiverNinja]

Beastly!

 

[rocheleauc]

wow, what a tank of a sucker! lol. They're a lot of fun.

 

[Brian]

the water looks great...
I can see why you thought it was a carp at first; that sucker is hugeee...

 

[NOTTA STEELER]

Nice one ... we hook into a couple of those a day . Like NADO said we slammed into a few on Saturday , the bottom does move in strange ways .

 

[getin]

Went out to my ........

This very well could be a record! You should have weighted that

 

[Spinninreel]

What a lunker! It is surprising how well some of those suckers fight. Congrats.

 

[openfire]

Very nice job frozenfire.

I've never personally seen such a big sucker! :blink:

 

[MichaelVerdirame]

Absolutely SPECTACULAR! Oh the wonderful rewards of exploration

Also thought it was a carp on first glance.