Just got back from my first trip to Windermere on my mate's boat after the pike and in the first half hour had this ferrox, apparently I'm a lucky bugger!!
That's a sodding great big wild brown trout! Fish of a lifetime! Male with that hooked bottom jaw. Take it wasn't caught with a size 18 Greenwells Glory. Congratulations. What weight?
It was just over 10lb, caught on a rapala minnow rap, my mate has never seen one caught! He was propper over the moon! My first ever trip there, I think he will invite me back. No pike though but had a bang on a big lure. Weather was not the best, going again next week.
Plenty of old boys down on the pier that will no doubt give you contradictory advice of what you'll need
Few things are as tasty as wild caught trout, I take it it went back,if so,bummer,if not you'll be agreeing with me
you can get char in windermere but not often available. they like to be deep and in the coldest parts of the lake
