Wild Gold

(3/27/2019- This post contains examples of very poor fish handling. Use it as an example of what not to do. Thank you, 
R.M. Lytle)

I am not one to be very jealous, even over fish. One day two summers ago stands out though. Dalton and I went out to catch big brook trout where a feeder creek dumped oxygenated water into a big pool. I got a bunch of absolute honker brook trout, holdovers up to 18 inches. Then Dalton decided he would go up the little tributary and throw a rooster tail under a cut bank. He came out of the laurels holding, of all things, a wild tiger trout. I was pretty jealous, but was still happy that he had the luck to find such an elusive fish.