bazzdude
5/9/2012 9:39:00 PMNice fish! hopefully you told the guy his picture was or is going to be on the world wid web.
tomnordman
5/10/2012 2:00:00 AMNever caught a giant rainbow or even a small one with green sides and a white belly, not to mention stuff growing on the sides. Looks like a great big tench, bottom feeder, That fish is by no means a rainbow trout,. tell your neighbor to keep up the good work on Deer lake we need thoses trash fish out of there.
boyermtn
5/10/2012 8:28:00 AMMay indeed be a rainbow but I do agree, that without seeing it from the side, it could be a tench. Not many people have even heard of a tench, but having grown up and lived on Loon Lake, they are around and are frequently caught within schools of trout. Given the gentle mans age, I would think that he knows the difference, though.
troutheart
5/10/2012 1:35:00 PMFat white belly, red fins, Deer lake. Trout mouth, not tench. I'm voting for a mack
trout-killa
5/10/2012 3:50:00 PMcoloration is all wrong for a mack, macks dont have green on the sides
troutheart
5/10/2012 4:57:00 PMSiscowet lake trout (Which are found commonly in the northwest) do have a greenish-grey color during spawning times.
Augwen
5/10/2012 7:44:00 PMJeez guys...the guy has lived on the lake for 30 plus years and fishes a lot. I am sure he knows what a Rainbow looks like. It is not a tench...has anyone ever seen a 9 lb tench? As we all catch a lot of Macks we also know what they look like. Bottom line was the person taking the picture did not do a good job!!! It was a Rainbow!!!
natetreat
5/10/2012 7:51:00 PMIt's a rainbow with dirty sides. It's just a big one. That's a nice sized fish!
buc
5/10/2012 9:37:00 PMNICE BOW ! next time you should take a dump on the dock and let these experts tell you what kind of corn your using!
bluegrouse bill
5/11/2012 8:50:00 PMSeriously, why does everyone have to have a smart ass comment? This is the kind of crap that make people stop posting reports. There are a lot of big rainbows in Deer lake just look through the past reports. It's not a Tench or a mack it's A Bow. You can see the Green & Red on it's side plus the spots on the tail.