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Old 01-04-2017, 12:05 PM
Coulee Coulee is offline
 
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Was fishing Harold Creek west of Water Valley for brown trout. I was using a flying black ant on the surface when my partner got his leg stuck in something and was comically trying to free himself.

I stopped paying attention to my ant which sank to the bottom, in order to watch my partner. When I went to cast again, the biggest sucker in all the Alberta Foothills had taken it. I thought I was hooked into a huge brown, when much to my surprise I landed a 5lb, ugly bottom feeding monster.

I have hooked many suckers before while nymphing, but that thing was right out of left field.

I have also caught several squawfish, which I believe are now called a, "Pike Minnow." They fight well but are ugly and very slimy.
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