What a monster! Congratulations. What was the lucky fly?

Holy mother of trout! That's awesome.

wow man

Thanks Guys!! Banker what are his prices like I couldn't find a website and nobody answers the phone!

I caught him on a scud that I tied it's a uv purple colored scud just something a little different

Trout of a lifetime for sure great fall color on that one. Have some uv scuds in pour ole I was going to try tomorrow my self.

Huge fish! Congrats
I may have missed it but what weight rod and what size tippet did you get it with.

5wt Winston Boran and got him on 5x tippet! The fight was unreal like something in the movies! Alot of running to keep him from getting me hung up on rock piles!

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An absolutely gorgeous fish! I have a passion for fish taxidermy!! Never did a brown, but never seen a fish I couldn't replicate. Here are some recent rainbows(last week) from New Mexico painted per the pictures. Congrats!!!!

Very nice fish! Congratulations. BTW...that's a male. Thanks for releasing him.

Is that right below the hatchery? I see the stairs in the background. I missed my monster browns in Colorado this year - may have to make a quick Missouri run!

Yeah, that's right below the northernmost hatchery outflow. It is a common "hangout" for the big Browns of Taneycomo this time of year. When they stop generating, a bunch of them will stay up there in the shallow water and all sorts of insanity follows. The big females can be hard to get to bite, because they're usually exhausted and trying to recuperate. The big males can be quite aggressive, but mostly in a territorial sort of way. So you have to sight-cast to the big males and wiggle something right in front of their faces...like within 6" or so to maximize your odds of catching one.

Many folks up there just toss a big streamer beyond the fish and drag it across them, snagging them. That is illegal, but it goes on. I've caught two of them over 30" there over the years, with the biggest coming on a size #16 EHC (dry fly), 5X tippet, and a 4wt fly rod. I just let the fly sit in an eddy pool that forms there on 1 generator when I saw a huge male swimming around there aimlessly. After 3 passes and refusals, it took the fly. I was lucky that he never ran out of the pool into swift water. Someone else netted the fish's head for me. The other took a black weightless Wooly Bugger just before dark on no generation. My wife was fishing with me that time, and the horn for generation had just blown when the fish took. I had cast to the fish several times already with no takes. I let it lay for a couple of minutes after casting and then twitched it just enough to create motion without pulling it away from the fish more than an inch or two. Boom! 5wt with 4X that time. We got the fish landed, revived, and released just as the water began to rise. These 2 catches were spread out between scores of days of November fishing there over a decade when we lived there. Those big old fish aren't easily fooled! To catch one legally is quite a feat of skill, persistence, and luck. There is no known natural reproduction of Brown Trout in Taneycomo in spite of a lot of wishful thinking, but the fish still "fake it" every year. Brown Trout are still aggressively stocked there. That's what brings them up there and makes them accessible to walk-in anglers...and also what makes me feel comfortable fishing for them there, but not in the White or Norfork or Little Red in AR this time of year.

Congratulations! Beautiful fish and sounds like a helluva battle. Thanks for the CPR and sharing your pics. That exact spot holds so many fond memories for me...went to school in Springfield and spent every possible moment I could fishing Taneycomo. Just wish we would have had all the fancy digital cameras and phones back then so more folks would believe my stories about the big browns in there! A lot of people just target the easy to catch release fish, but that water is full of natural giants!

Nice Fish!