I caught my personal best trout 2 days ago he weighed in at 8.15 lbs. He gave me a good fight for about 15 minutes. And no I am not mounting him, to much money. A couple of pictures is good enough for me.

Nice job!
How did you catch him? Fly fishing, spinning??

Impressive

I caught him using a 3" brown Hellgrammite and 6lb. line.

Nice one. We have been going to Roaring River for years. Have never caught anything larger than what they stock. What stream or park?

That is a dandy!

Nice Bow !!!!

But you were bass fishing ...right...lol

Holy crap what a fish. Being from St James I am assuming the Meramec?? Not the spring/hatchery but downstream maybe.

Not the Meramec. Rockbridge

That's a dandy fish.
I too was guessing it came out of the Meramec.

Very nice!

I was wondering about that place (based on width of stream). Ran into an advertisement somewhere for it recently.

That's a feeder stream that runs into the river there. Never over look feeder streams. He was hiding under a big log and came out and nail that hellgrammite

Great rainbow

What a fish!

Rockbridge has some huge trout!

While I was guiding in western Alaska we would catch bows in the 5-7 lb range regularly. A few in the 8-9 lb range. These were all fast water fish, not big bellied lake fish.

That’s awesome !

You'll have to change your screen name to Bigtrout. Congratulations on a fantastic rainbow.

Keith

Here, some time before the revolution, a guy that became a famous writer, which of course I can't remember his name, caught a huge brook trout, and of course I can't remember the weight, lol,
but what I do remember was they took that trout and cut out an outline of it on a piece of board...I believe they painted it up nice too....it's still attached to the church he was playing sunday hooky from....

so there's an option for you.

the rainbows that are in the great lakes are more what I suspect you'd call "fast water fish" even tho they live in a lake.

Pictures for ref.






I never weighted my fish. I measured length, the average size was about 20-25" in length.
Biggest one I saw was a little over 30".

Nice rainbow OP, how big of a river did that come out of?

Very Nice.

Mac

Really nice fish, Bigbuck!
This fish is not close to 8lbs, but has spent its entire life in a river. 23 1/2 inches

Nice! Looks like a good number of fish stacked in the pool behind you in the photo.

Would of made good flat head bait , just kidding, very impressive trout for sure

Good eatn ???????

Great fish you got there and I would not mount one either. That looks really healthy and fat, must be some good food for them in that creek. I see a small bass under you right hand in the first photo......jk

That is 1 super rainbow trout...

I once caught a rainbow that was close to 3 pounds and thought that was huge. But, yours is a monster! Congrats!

I don't think those are bass in the background. And there is more than one visible.