Got a big one this afternoon....WEIGHT was just shy of 8 lb.

[electricstart]

Nice Trout , congratulations 

[JHbowhunter]

Nice one Nick. Congrats

[Recurve hntr]

Beautiful fish! Congratulations.

[DonW]

Nice catch! Something about those Rapalas, my buddy used to catch a few breeders every year on the same lure. He was killed on his bike 2 years I left Jersey. 

[Russ 11]

Nice bow Nick . But that fish isn't bigger than 23 1/2 .  😂

[BowhunterNJ]

Dang nice one Nick!

[hammer4reel]

Pretty hard for a 24” fish to weigh 8 pounds .

5 # is pretty much the norm on that size fish, but it sure looks like it’s packed full of eggs .

and it looks like it’s missing quite a bit of its tail , could have been much longer if it had its whole broom 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by hammer4reel

[nmc02]

27 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Pretty hard for a 24” fish to weigh 8 pounds .

5 # is pretty much the norm on that size fish, but it sure looks like it’s packed full of eggs .

and it looks like it’s missing quite a bit of its tail , could have been much longer if it had its whole broom 

 

Honestly, seems to be less than 8 to me. Guy guaranteed me that he weighed and was. I thought 5. Though, it was super fat from head to tail...now wish I weighed it. 

[hemlock]

41 minutes ago, nmc02 said:

Honestly, seems to be less than 8 to me. Guy guaranteed me that he weighed and was. I thought 5. Though, it was super fat from head to tail...now wish I weighed it. 

That fish is obeese i'm not surpeised it weighed that at all.  It's all the kibbles n beefy bits he ate before leaving the hatchery. Again awesome!

[Nomad]

My fish was 5lbs 8oz and it was 22 inches.  So, if yours was two inches longer, and it looks fatter, I would say just shy of 8 lbs could be right. My son's was 25" and 7 lbs for comparison.

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by Nomad

[TDietz]

NICE!! Look at the belly on that thing!

[SoxFan]

Awesome!!

[CapeCod]

So I’m 2 for 3 on big breeders this spring.  I only keep the big ones for the smoker to make fish dip. What’s the deal with the pink flesh? 

[nmc02]

57 minutes ago, Nomad said:

My fish was 5lbs 8oz and it was 22 inches.  So, if yours was two inches longer, and it looks fatter, I would say just shy of 8 lbs could be right. My son's was 25" and 7 lbs for comparison.

 

Looks very similar to your son's. Guess it was bigger than 5. Old timer I gave it to swears he weighed it on rapala digital scale and was 8. 

[Nomad]

 

Did he give you a good fight? What pound test were you using?