Sandy 8/19/12 - 34lb. 6 oz. lake trout

[tcon]

Wow Mike just sent me the picture Kurt holy shikes!!! Congrats Kurt, Brian and Keith! What a fish!

Tom

[tcon]

Double Post.

[Silver Fox]

Great job guys! I heard you hollering from the flats!

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[Lund SSS]

and just last week you told me " farming isn't easy these days" ........ Congrats on the CHICKEN of a LIFETIME.

[TESSIER]

Great fish Kurt , glad to net it for you ! Thanks for letting me keep first place in the Orleans Laker Division. Brian after 16 years of fishing with you it just keeps getting better!

[Get The Net]

Brian way to go. that is one to remember.That is one old fish. Congratulations.

By the way did you pull that from under Jerry's house? LOL

[flyboy7]

Holy cow! Nice fish!! Great job!

[BAZOOKAJOE]

Piggie laker!! Congrats!!

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[hermit]

Wow holy crap congratulations!

[Duckman1]

Very nice Brian and crew. Wow

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[tommymo]

Wow!

That would be 1 in a lifetime for me and many folks. Congratulations!

Tom

[33canuck]

What an awesome day you would be hard fast to wipe the smiles off our faces. Chicken or not hauling a trophy like that over the rail is huge for the whole crew everyone knows it takes the whole crew to pull it together when it counts. Damn proud to be a part of the SS Chicken Coup crew, good times just damn good tim... And the beast will look good on the wall too!

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[Jammer]

Now that's a lunker! Congrats.

JAM

[BlueEye]

Wow Brian - amazin' fish! Congrats bud

[kremer01]

pig of a chicken, but whatever farm animal you want to call it thats one heck of a fish!

CONGRATULATIONS!!

[Boatino]

Great job guys! I never thought I'd say this about a Laker but that is a Beautiful Fish!!!! Congratulations guys!

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[Has Been]

Could very well be the fish of the year. As much as many dis them ,thank God for the lakers. Saved the day many times.

[larry]

Wow, think that's a green submarine can't be real, what age would a lake trout be to reach that size? Congrats

[GAMBLER]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It has been one heck of a season on the Escape (aka Chicken Coupe). I think our success is due to a good TEAM effort on the boat and a TON of LUCK. I am luck enough to fish with some mighty fine fishermen out of our little network of guys here at Sandy. It looks like Kurt is going to do a replica mount of this fish and I'm going to get a skin mount done to add to my collection. That fish is definitly a fish of a lifetime. I think it was Capt Vince that said Lake Ontario never stops amazing me. I feel the same way. We are all lucky to have this WORLD CLASS FISHERY right in our back yard! There is a ton of trophy fish out there. Go get them guys!

[REELJERKS]

We are all lucky to have this WORLD CLASS FISHERY right in our back yard!

Ain’t that the truth! Nice fish Brian

[reel drag]

Fantastic catch Brian and congratulations. Who says all the big Lakers are at the bar!

[GAMBLER]

Brian way to go. that is one to remember.That is one old fish. Congratulations.

By the way did you pull that from under Jerry's house? LOL

Lou,

We were a little further East of his house but I guarantee he could hear the hooting and hollering when that beast hit the floor.

Larry,

I'm going to contact the DEC today and see what I have to do to get this fish aged.

[Pike Hunter]

Holy sheet! What a big laker"

Congrats Brian and gang.

[gokudl3]

DAM!!!nice freaking fish.

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[momay4000]

What a great fish of a lifetime - congrats!

Brian - the DEC can age lake trout by scales (highly unreliable especially with older fish) but I know they can also look at bone structures (possibly called otoliths) in their inner ears which I think can grow like rings on a tree. The only way they could do this would be to cut into the fish and I don't think you're going to want that until the Derby is over...lol.

Great job on your fish bud,

- Chris