Snuzzle [Explored Aug 15, 2014 # 173]

We were told about a trophy fishing lake in Manitoba, where the browns are huge. Well yes indeed they are.

We each caught the biggest brown trout for us so far but not without some drama.

No not to the fish, even though they fought like a freight train and were so strong as to launch themselves up for a hug and then self release.

 

No, the drama was with the weather. We arrived with some cloudy conditions and amazing fishing. So what if the clouds got fuller and darker and wetter, and downpoured for the 3 days we stayed? So what if our lakeside campsite became a lake? With the best trophy fishing we've had in a long long long time, we endured and fished. Until we couldn't. Until the heavens opened for too long and you couldn't see the lake for the storm.

 

Time to go, and apparently we picked the exact right time to leave, as Manitoba Floods to this area were so intense that a state of emergency was declared.

 

For us, with amazing fishing and trophy size, it was a state of elation.

 

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