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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: wonder on March 31, 2014, 01:35:01 PM

Title: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on March 31, 2014, 01:35:01 PM
So, I recall someone saying they would eat their shorts if there was a laker in alouette lake... Well my friend sent me this today. Caught in the narrows at the back of the lake.

Fish was released after pic from what I was told...
I have some BBQ sauce if it would help the shorts go down  ;D
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: typhoon on March 31, 2014, 01:37:04 PM
Tail looks awfully square for a laker.
...and tell your friend to get his hands out of the gills if he is releasing a fish.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: leapin' tyee on March 31, 2014, 01:40:33 PM

...and tell your friend to get his hands out of the gills if he is releasing a fish.

x2... He is killing that poor fish... ::) ::)
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on March 31, 2014, 01:43:49 PM
I don't know the guy it's my friends sons friend. I knew that would be what this thread turned into... Could be a massive bull trout. Definitely biggest fish I've seen in there
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Rodney on March 31, 2014, 02:02:14 PM
That's a bull trout.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on March 31, 2014, 02:09:34 PM
Put the shorts away, the legend lives on
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: MetalAndFeathers on March 31, 2014, 05:12:34 PM
I got excited for a second there.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Dave on March 31, 2014, 05:20:37 PM
That's a bull trout.
X2, and most likely a very old one. Guessing it's cooked by now ..
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: BCLAX on March 31, 2014, 11:12:15 PM
I'm assuming the pic was taken down?
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Fish Assassin on April 01, 2014, 12:11:32 AM
I'm assuming the pic was taken down?

Yup
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Ian Forbes on April 01, 2014, 03:00:08 PM
(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/album771/Wheeler_Lake_laker.jpg)
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: jim on April 01, 2014, 06:46:46 PM
Hmmm. The man is standing in a river. It is a steelhead.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: jim on April 01, 2014, 06:49:11 PM
Is this thread a joke?
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: jim on April 02, 2014, 05:07:00 PM
If you can't show the photo could you delete your thread.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on April 02, 2014, 08:42:19 PM
the photo bucket link died, if you'd stop commenting it would go away
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Ian Forbes on April 02, 2014, 10:56:14 PM
the photo bucket link died, if you'd stop commenting it would go away

But it is FUN commenting with silly remarks.

(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/album223/Archer_fish_Em.jpg)

But on the subject of shorts... I was just hanging around waiting for the owner of these to come and get them.

(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/album215/Short_shorts.jpg)
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: jimstone on April 03, 2014, 07:29:34 AM
worked at the north end of alouette for years and had a picture from b.c. outdoors magazine inside my locker door of a young girl from maple ridge with a 30 pound plus lake trout caught late 70s early 80s. Out with her family they ran out of spinning gear so dad hooked her up with a mooching rod ,flasher, weights and big metal lure that were spares on the boat
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on April 03, 2014, 08:05:04 AM
LOL @Ian I don't blame u  ;D

worked at the north end of alouette for years and had a picture from b.c. outdoors magazine inside my locker door of a young girl from maple ridge with a 30 pound plus lake trout caught late 70s early 80s. Out with her family they ran out of spinning gear so dad hooked her up with a mooching rod ,flasher, weights and big metal lure that were spares on the boat

Uh oh here we go again haha
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Rieber on April 03, 2014, 08:44:55 AM
Old Allouette Laker picture:

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/rieber_photos/Allouettelakechar_zpsf8e93d58.jpg)
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: riptide on April 04, 2014, 05:52:33 AM
Are you sure that isn't the same photographer as the Mako Shark caught of Ucluelet ? Oh well it's early and it's on the internet it must be true .
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Rieber on April 04, 2014, 06:41:20 AM
Are you sure that isn't the same photographer as the Mako Shark caught of Ucluelet ? Oh well it's early and it's on the internet it must be true .

What??? I don't understand the connection. Whatever - someone wanted to see a photo of an Allouette Lake Trout and there it is pictured at the Narrow beach. I didn't take the picture.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Riverman on April 04, 2014, 10:45:44 AM
 It's a friggin miracle.The sun is shining from two directions in that photo!Planet Krypton?LOL
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Rieber on April 04, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
It's a friggin miracle.The sun is shining from two directions in that photo!Planet Krypton?LOL

Looks like the sun is almost directly overhead to me. But since you mentioned it, there does to be some questions on shadows. I wasn't there to confirm. Nice fish though.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: typhoon on April 04, 2014, 02:02:40 PM
At least we know the lakers are man-sized.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Rieber on April 04, 2014, 03:28:09 PM
Also apparently some chubby ones in Allouette:

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb45/rieber_photos/Alouettelakercropped_zps49570728.jpg)

Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Dave on April 04, 2014, 04:09:35 PM
Calling Firebird, where are you ... ;D
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: firebird on April 04, 2014, 06:26:56 PM
The 2 photos of lakers are legit but from a long time ago. They came from Alouette. The one held by the guy in the orange floater coat was caught in 1998 in a gill net by BC Fisheries. Theoretically, there could be a behemoth or 2 cruising around in Alouette.

Sorry to hear a big bull trout was mishandled and released or killed ... there are not many in the lake. Having said that, retention of 1 char is allowable, for now, so there's nothing wrong with killing one. Sticking hands in the gills before releasing one is another story. 
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Sam6140 on April 05, 2014, 04:52:59 AM
Buntzen Lake supposedly has Lakers as well.  Has anyone heard of or seen one caught?
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: wonder on April 05, 2014, 07:54:58 AM
I've never even got a bite in buntzen, even right after stocking
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: firebird on April 05, 2014, 08:15:06 AM
Buntzen Lake supposedly has Lakers as well.  Has anyone heard of or seen one caught?

Buntzen does not have Lake Trout, Salvelinus namaycush. They are not native to the region and have not been stocked in Buntzen.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: Sam6140 on April 07, 2014, 09:16:04 PM
Pretty sure years ago, it was posted on that sign they have depicting all the different species of fish the lake carries.  Lake Trout, and Dolly Vardens were on there.
Title: Re: Short eating time?
Post by: firstlight on April 07, 2014, 10:03:54 PM
worked at the north end of alouette for years and had a picture from b.c. outdoors magazine inside my locker door of a young girl from maple ridge with a 30 pound plus lake trout caught late 70s early 80s. Out with her family they ran out of spinning gear so dad hooked her up with a mooching rod ,flasher, weights and big metal lure that were spares on the boat

The Father and Daughter were from Port Coquitlam and lived just up the street from us.
Would have been around early 80,s as you say.
I heard it from him and read the article in BC Outdoors.