Fantastic Fishing

As you can see I've been doing quite a bit of fishing. Am in the town of Twizel and fishing in all the hydroelectric canals. Have been catching quite a few and some nice ones too. And finally today I got a BIG one!
The top photo is a decent Sockeye Salmon. They do get up to 20lbs in the canals here but most in the 2-8lb range. They fight really hard. The second pic is me fighting the fish in the third picture. A nice 3lb Brown Trout. See the guy laying on his belly? He's getting ready to net it for me. The fourth photo is a good view that shows you how big these canals are. And finally the last photo is what I caught this morning. A very nice 10lb Rainbow Trout. My biggest trout ever. Took about 10 minutes to land and put up a excellent fight on 8 pound test line. A very beautiful fish. All the others I have been turning loose. I get the strangest looks/comments from the locals whenever I turn one loose. They usually keep most everything that they catch. I did keep the big rainbow. Took it to a chef in town that smokes and vacuum packs them. Hope it's good!! Hopefully will top that 10 pounder this week. There are a lot in the canal much bigger than that. Now I'm shooting for a 15-20 pounder!!