North Sider Robert Knapp caught this 36-inch, 25-pound brown trout from the Pike in southeastern Wisconsin in mid-March. He was fishing a Woolly Bugger on 3x tippet.

That's a helluva fat-bellied brown, let alone catching it with a fly rod. i am very impressed.

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