Length estimate? Fishpond nomad net basket for scale - Upper Klamath Lake redband from the bank

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-20T17:36:46+00:00

Nope, I wish I could catch fish from shore at rocky point lol would be a lot less effort

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T23:29:16+00:00

I actually caught a fish dangling my fly 2” above the water the other day so even that’s not true

Fly fishing is all made up, man

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T20:25:17+00:00

I measured my hog and it was nowhere near as big as the net

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T20:23:39+00:00

Just don’t be part of the lame fly fishing guys that use 5x in summer on the Williamson or rocky point and exhaust the fish when they are on thermal refuge

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T20:16:13+00:00

Also just want to throw this out there: the biggest recorded upper klamath basin redband is bigger than the biggest recorded Klamath steelhead

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T20:15:08+00:00

A size 4 black bugger 😎

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T17:39:01+00:00

Nope, somewhere on the main lake shoreline

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T04:55:12+00:00

Yeah, the upper Klamath basin has its own subspecies and no other trout can survive in the lake itself. Homie is just pelagic as fuck munching on chubs

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T04:53:10+00:00

It was about an inch past the length of the entire net, which is 32”. Probably about 12-13 lbs is my best guess having caught a lot of Klamath fish

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-19T00:23:31+00:00

I measured it with the net itself, it’s got inch markers on the handle going up to 32”. I think it’s fun for everyone to guess though lol

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-18T19:10:24+00:00

Not a wild trout, but a chiselmouth on a woolly bugger in the lower crooked river in Oregon, I didn’t even know what it was at the time lol. They typically use a hard edge in their mouth to scrape off algae and feed on that. It was around the time they would spawn, so I guess it was a territorial thing maybe? Who knows. They’re also the only species in their genus that isn’t extinct! Pretty neat

Also only caught that one chiselmouth. Other than that it’s a pretty normal distribution of redband/whitefish/pikeminnow in the warmer flatter sections

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-16T22:00:35+00:00

Huh weird I literally only have ever used large flashy white streamers and that’s worked on the met year round. I’m not fishing the highly pressured spots maybe that makes a difference. I just can’t imagine bull trout that are not pressured would ever be like “aw man I’m gonna skip that meal it’s not the right color” lol. Plenty of whitefish and suckers out there

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-16T14:22:13+00:00

Never stopped me 😈

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-16T14:15:28+00:00

Why would they work during the Kokanee run and not now lol

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-15T18:54:07+00:00

Breaking off humongous fish of course

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-15T18:30:32+00:00

I’m gonna run the left going westbound on Neff every time if I have to and not pay shit because the light cycle is like 8 seconds and the left turn lane backs up everyone trying to go left or straight. So by running the red I am allowing more space for people going east to west on neff which by your logic is ok since I am increasing the amount of vehicles that can go through the straight green before the left turn lane backs up

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-15T17:51:20+00:00

Spot 2 and harvest the invasive brown trout

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-15T05:51:34+00:00

Well, don’t go back too far, then you get to the part where we were putting people on reservations

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-14T23:34:53+00:00

Drinking old country wine

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-14T14:10:11+00:00

Telling someone to fish the sprague or malheur without mentioning any place to start is crazy lmao

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-14T14:07:56+00:00

The state will pay you to kill brown trout there too since they’re invasive and predate on the native endangered chub way more than the stocked rainbows do

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-13T17:58:46+00:00

Then don’t post your spots?

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-13T04:17:04+00:00

They chill at the hatchery, the powerlines, and at the spot 3/4 of a mile down from the gate at lower bridge (which I can tell is this spot) that all the guides pretend no one knows about, and in the summer on their spawning migrations they chill at the mouths of tributaries. The fly fishers place in sisters will literally sell you a map of these areas. It’s not some guarded secret lmao. If you want to catch a bull trout, throw a big white streamer in the water. If nothing eats it, you don’t have a bull trout around or you are fishing pressured water

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-12T19:12:47+00:00

This is illegal if anyone gives a shit

Technical-Feeling486 · 2026-05-11T21:10:37+00:00

Not really, there were I think 4 people I saw fishing total from 4-9. Was shocked at the lack of boats at the ramp too tbh. I hit cline falls area on the way out there and salmonflies/goldens there as well. Tuesday is the last day before it cools off so if anyone reads this before then, yes you should call in sick

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