I can only assume that this guy, Matt Heron, knew where this massive brown trout was lying, then went there with his camera guy to film it. Nevertheless,it’s a great video.
There are few things in this video worthy of mention:
- First, as you can see just before he nets the fish, it’s a very narrow, shallow river and he hooks it right under his own feet. It never ceases to surprise me how a thin bit of water can hold big fish, and I’m amazed he didn’t spook it. Having said that, he approached it from slightly downstream, so maybe it didn’t see him?
- In my opinion, he’s pretty premature with the net and he comes very close to paying the price. OK, it’s a big fish and maybe it wouldn’t fit easily into the net, but it definitely wasn’t ready. He’d have kicked himself had it got away!
- Whatever I say, he caught it, and it is a massive browny. Wow – well done sir!
Enjoy!
http://youtu.be/PoNZktspPcE
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