Bull you say...

[The Muddler]

A pic of my 27" bull trout (like a Dolly Varden) from the weekend...





Released to swim another day...

Cheers
M

[vancouvercanuck]

Nice fish Muddler (u must have been poachn  )

[dirtface]

NICE. nice release as well. pan fish are made for keeping  good luck , and thanks to the cold spell we almost have safe ice everywhere in mass by this weekend the cape will be locked

[coldbum]

nice fish. I actually had never heard of a  bull trout untill a couple weeks ago when I came across this article 

http://fwp.state.mt.us/bulltroutid/default.htm

Way to go on the release, sounds like these giant beauties are in some trouble in areas

[bigredonice]

man, that is one big char!! how do they fight?  do they make long runs, headshake, or what?

[camo_fish]

awesome fatty bull, I bet that was fun on the jig pole, WTG. 

[The Muddler]

They put up a darn good fight.  They stress the old icefishin' reel pretty good.  They can bake off some line in a hurry and tend to roll quite a bit.  After each fish my line would have twists all over it.  Makes for a nice change from the little fellers.  Gotta love worrying about whether or not you have enough reel on your line to handle the runs

[Carp1]

Sweet fish.  Congrat's on landing the fatty.