MKern
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With the recent topic, with a similar title, about browns spawning, I was wondering about rainbows. In my area of PA we are told that it is impossible for a few reasons: they die, they are caught and eaten, they swim away, they are screwwed up and the females create eggs in the fall instead of the spring,and the list goes on. However, this past spring, when fishing side by side with my good friend, he hooked into a small fish. When he landed it, it was a 7" bow with parr marks, and when he placed it back into the water it darted back to the riffle, without having to be revived. It also so happens that I chose not to get a picture; like a moron. We both think it was wild because of its appearence, the way it acted, and the fact that a vast majority of the bows stocked were 13". So for a 7" fish to survive in a raceway with 13" fish and then in the stream rased our eyebrows. Also, we both believe that if there is a will there is a way and the instint of survival is the greatest influence on life.
I know that bows in the Delaware water basin can reproduce, as well as in Penns and Spring. Also, steelheads sometimes find a way.
So what do you guys have to say?
I know that bows in the Delaware water basin can reproduce, as well as in Penns and Spring. Also, steelheads sometimes find a way.
So what do you guys have to say?