Dang palaminos

[Cougarbaby]

Looks kinda like a perch

 

[Sylvaneous]

I like them in Oil Creek, but that stream is in a certain category of stocked fish water. A little or medium trout stream, I wouldn't want it for the reasons mentioned above.

 

[nymphingmaniac]

What causes the fish to sometimes grow in these weird shapes?

my guess is over breeding and a homogeneous gene pool that results.

 

[rustbeltwilds]

my guess is over breeding and a homogeneous gene pool that results.

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my guess is over breeding and a homogeneous gene pool that results.

You may be onto something lol lol lol lol

 

[bingsbaits]

Put this one on the wall 30 years ago. Weighed over 13lbs when it was stocked and would have been a state record at the time. I caught it two weeks after being stocked and she weighed 11 lbs. Didn't know it was there in some big water.
Second I swear looks like Jimmy Durante...

 

[JG63]

A number of years back, a good size golden RT was stocked pre-season in a Venango County stream. That would have been in early March. All through that season, he hung out under the same bush beside the bank. It's a busy stream, so he must have survived several hundred anglers and God only knows how many herons and mergansers. The stream is a decent wild brown trout fishery and I was down there in November counting redds and making the odd cast. He was still hanging out under the same bush. I flipped a #1 Moon-Glo Mepps Aglia a bit above him and he rushed it and ate it. He was about 17", I took him out and broiled him with some butter and garlic. He was about the worst fish I ever ate and my standards for eating fish aren't all that high..

So, he was in the creek for about 8 months, That's a long time for a stocked fish in general and especially for a golden RT.

Stockers look ok from the smoker until you take that first bite - 🤢

 

[Cougarbaby]

Yea I smoked a dozen 6 yrs ago or so , didn't even catch a buzz, LMAO

 

[tomgamber]

looks over-smoked. If those were whitefish, they'd be good. I put very much smoke on a trash trout. their mashed potato texture cant handle it. then I break it up and make smoked trout spread. you could probably still rescue those by making something like that with them. steelhead smoke up very nicely but its much firmer.

 

[RLeep2]

Stockers look ok from the smoker until you take that first bite - 🤢View attachment 1641250384

I'd probably never get past the 2nd or 3rd bite regardless of how tasty/untasty they were. Smoked fish is usually a sodium bomb. I'd be on the floor with vertigo and doing the technicolor yawn repeatedly. Inner ear stuff...

 

[tomgamber]

I'd probably never get past the 2nd or 3rd bite regardless of how tasty/untasty they were. Smoked fish is usually a sodium bomb. I'd be on the floor with vertigo and doing the technicolor yawn repeatedly. Inner ear stuff...

Only if you brine them. Or add salt.

 

[JG63]

looks over-smoked. If those were whitefish, they'd be good. I put very much smoke on a trash trout. their mashed potato texture cant handle it. then I break it up and make smoked trout spread. you could probably still rescue those by making something like that with them. steelhead smoke up very nicely but its much firmer.

I was going for the kippered Herring smoke - great for beer drinking because of the salt

 

[wildtrout2]

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They look like they got the fate they deserved. Yuck!