Lost Lake Keeper

I try to fish Lost Lake every week and usually catch something....more spotty in the summer due to warmer water temps, so down rigging is a must.
Typically 25 to 70 feet deep depending on where you see the fish.

Today I covered 8 miles and after drowning 5 lures (flat fish, rapallas, etc) I tied on a spinner and in about 5 minutes this guy hit at 30 feet deep.
9 # 4 oz, 27.5" long buck.....steelhead/trout.

Nice feeshy.  You got a close up of it?  It's kind of funny looking for a steelhead.  Spot pattern suggests brown trout to me, but it's hard to be definitive from that pic.

-Allen

Really nice fishie!! great job!

Nice feeshy.  You got a close up of it?  It's kind of funny looking for a steelhead.  Spot pattern suggests brown trout to me, but it's hard to be definitive from that pic.

-Allen

Same thing I thought.

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It really is a trout.....trout over 20" is technically a steelhead in Oregon.......the fish is two hours out of the water in this pic.......I do catch German Browns in Lost Lake but this is not one.

Large Rainbow trout do have speckled spots.....

It really is a trout.....trout over 20" is technically a steelhead in Oregon.......the fish is two hours out of the water in this pic.......I do catch German Browns in Lost Lake but this is not one.

Yea, that's a piggie rainbow..

Great fish.  I've seen them corral smaller fish in the shallows up there.

Another vote for lake run brown trout.  The large black spots, just behind the gill plates, below the lateral line, have a definite Salmo ish look to them.

Better lighting or a close up and we could tell for sure. 

nice surgical extraction doc!

Nice fish! I was just east of you fishing this weekend. I thought about popping over to Lost Lake on the way back home, but never made it.

There might/most likely is some cross breeding in Lost Lake.......I know the photo does not do justice for the fish, but I believe it to be a big rainbow trout as I have caught Browns in LL and spots, body coloration and fins are a wee bit different different.
The Browns I have pulled out of LL do not have the "sliverish body hue" of this fish....it was brighter two hours earlier......one of the long term employees at LL, who saw this fish up close did not call it a Brown....maybe some fish biologist can tell from the adipose fin and dark lower jaw gum line??
I am open to ideas..

There might/most likely is some cross breeding in Lost Lake.......I know the photo does not do justice for the fish, but I believe it to be a big rainbow trout as I have caught Browns in LL and spots, body coloration and fins are a wee bit different different.
The Browns I have pulled out of LL do not have the "sliverish body hue" of this fish....it was brighter two hours earlier......one of the long term employees at LL, who saw this fish up close did not call it a Brown....maybe some fish biologist can tell from the adipose fin and dark lower jaw gum line??
I am open to ideas..

Whatever the fish is, it sure is a nice one!

-Allen

Thanks Allen....it made my morning!
Three weeks ago, I caught a 3.5 pound and 1.75 pound Brown....last week was zippo...just part of the fun of fishing.