2018 SEPA Season

[mute]

Happy 2018 trout season! Just wanted to share my success over the past weekend across the skippack, stony, ridley, french streams.

Hope everyone enjoys and is out there stinging some lips!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SRMi7gLng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUD5sQ5ClA

 

[krayfish2]

You seem to have cornered the market on lightning trout

 

[The_Sasquatch]

bwuhahahahaha!

Best thread ever!
#keepemwet
#lighteningtroot

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

lightning trout not golden rainbows

Searching around the Internet and Facebook the past week, it seems there are a lot of those creamsicle-colored trout in the stocked waters this year. Or, at least, lots of people caught them last weekend and posted photos for me and others to see.

Based on those postings, I want to clear something up about those fish.

They are lightning trout.

They are not golden rainbows.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission used to stock golden rainbows, but they haven’t done so for many years.

They stock lightning trouts.

What’s the difference?

Well, they are both color variations of rainbow trout.

But the lightning troutss have more brilliant colors than golden rainbows, grow to larger sizes and protect their spawning beds with shocks through their lateral line with the same voltage as an electric eel. Unlike other cousins in trout family, lightning trouts are known to fight better and feed heavier during large electrical storms.

 

[CLSports]

Are those 4 different fish from those 4 different streams? Very impressive if so. The cross-county lightning slam.

 

[troutless]

Very nice zebra midge?