It can even be early April around the northern counties of Wisconsin. Some seasons, it can be in late February and some seasons it can be in late March. The term ice-out is relative year to year. I’ll go through these periods of the season and the best tactics to get yourself into a 30-pound-class giant. It’s April right now and we find ourselves in one of the three best periods to tangle with a giant brown. As much fun as it is to land a 15- or 18-pounder and release it back to the lake unharmed, I always think, “darn I just made that fish a little more wary and tougher to catch.” But release is the only option to get a chance to grow a true super tanker. You need to be in the right place at the right time and hope they make a mistake! Remember, they don’t get to 20 pounds by making a lot of mistakes. Hunting giant browns is very similar to chasing muskies. As they get bigger and bigger, they get more and more wise, elusive, loaners. Since I started this fishing 40+ years ago, the brown trout has always been my favorite fish. Forty pounders put us into an elite group that even Argentina must tap out of.īecause it is in our backyard, do we take it for granted? I, for one, do not. Our state has hung a 40-pounder on the board and the lake itself has at least two in that category. The one I left off the list above is the one right in our backyard, Lake Michigan! Yes, we are definitely on the list of the best places on earth to catch a 20-, 25-, 30- or even 40-pound brown trout. There are only a few places in the world where an angler has a shot at some of the biggest brown trout on the planet.
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