So much for the similarities with home . . . Ann Hamner caught this 24-pound hook-jawed male with about a 20-foot cast at 10:30 in the morning, on a Bitch Creek nymph. As you might guess, going toe-to-toe with such large fish in a relatively small river is an experience. They jump like Atlantic salmon, and burrow their noses toward the nearest log jams, and pull like draft mules, making 15- and 20-pound Maxima leaders bust like cobwebs . . . hasta luego, baby. Fortunately Ann won this battle. At 24 pounds, this fish matched anything the Trochine brothers had ever landed in over 400 days working the Rio Grande.