Unexpected First

Yeah, I know.  It is just a troot and a hybrid at that but just look at it!  Plus I think it was a fun little story to boot

Well I decided to spend my un-roundup day on the trout stream I first learned to trout fish on as kid.  I had no expectations of catching anything particularly interesting.

I caught piles of Brown Trout, no Brookies as is typical in this stretch.  No White Suckers either, which was a bit of a surprise.  All in all a nice, if a bit cold day of wet wading and keiryu style fishing red wigglers from the compost bin.  

All the spring emphemerials goin' off and I was kicking up ground nut tubers along the sandy river bottom.  Finally I hooked a fish that immediately looked different.  For a second I thought it was a big Brookie but a moment later I realized I had hooked a Tiger... It was a tense few moments fighting this cool fish on a 6m pole with 6x tippet and a barbless hook but in the end I slid it into the net (some definite chaos of an uncooperative fish at the end)

 So, I caught my first Tiger Trout... They aren't stocked here so this a rarely occuring natural hybrid which makes it much more interesting.  Never would I have guessed I'd catch one, I guess that's the beauty of those dates when you go out without any expectations