PA Trout records

Hook_Jaw

Hook_Jaw

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I think about this alot I don't know if others do but alot of the PA trout records seem to come out of a lake or a creek, river that goes into a lake. Would like if there could be sperate records for smaller streams all though some go into bigger rivers. I guess it could never happen but It would be nice to see the trout records that the smaller streams get.
 
What difference would it make? Where the record fish comes from is entirely dependent on where the PFBC stocks it.
 

It makes a big difference the size of a lake a trout gets way bigger then a small stream
 
All of the record trout are stocked fish. They usually aren't in the water long enough to matter whether it was put in to a lake, stream or river.

Here are the bodies of water the current records came out of:

Brown-Elk Creek, Erie
Brook-Fishing creek, clinton cty
golden rainbow(lol really?)-mahoning
rainbow-jordan creek, lehigh
 
I guess there would be no way to have a native trout record then lol. The brook trout was caught on a piece of sock lint haha
 
Well, the brown trout one may have been stocked, but it definitely mattered where he grew up. The brown trout equivalent of a steelhead. But they have a separate category for lake run rainbows, just not a separate category for lake run browns.

The brook, while I know nothing of the fish itself, could have been wild, freshly stocked, or stocked and survived a long time.

The golden and bow are definitely freshly stocked fish.
 

the brook trout was out of the hatchery at Lamar said to have escaped in a flood.
 
seemed to me it would have to matter as fast as brown trout grow in a big enviroment
 
The golden rainbow out of Mahoning may have been snagged or lined. It was caught on a trout magnet, the story was on their website.

For what it's worth, I'd rather catch a 10 inch wild brookie or 18 inch wild brown than a 10lb. Great Lakes trib fish. Been there, done that. Give me the wilds.
 
My beef is that all the records are for stockies. They shouldn't even count.
 
Chaz wrote: My beef is that all the records are for stockies. They shouldn't even count. I concur with that statement.
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If you had been the lucky angler-then what?
99.9% of record fish are caught by luck so what does it prove anyway.
 
steliejim wrote:
The golden rainbow out of Mahoning may have been snagged or lined. It was caught on a trout magnet, the story was on their website.

For what it's worth, I'd rather catch a 10 inch wild brookie or 18 inch wild brown than a 10lb. Great Lakes trib fish. Been there, done that. Give me the wilds.
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It was lined, I know these guys. The brother of the kid that caught it, run all.over the area the first day lining the biggest fish.
 
Hook_Jaw wrote:

the brook trout was out of the hatchery at Lamar said to have escaped in a flood.
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You are right but I read that the trout escaped from the state hatchery at tylersville not the federal hatchery at lamar.
 
pete41 wrote:
Chaz wrote: My beef is that all the records are for stockies. They shouldn't even count. I concur with that statement.
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If you had been the lucky angler-then what?
99.9% of record fish are caught by luck so what does it prove anyway.
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It doesn't prove anything, but it does say one is wild/native (natural) and the other was manipulated (planted) by man. Think wild!
 
IMO the PFBC should have a category for WILD Tiger Trout. I'll bet my 14" Wild Tiger would be in the running for the state record. LOL
 
To look at it another way, nearly all the other state record fish are wild fish, most likely exceptions are walleyes and muskies. Not so with trout.
 

Yep your right was tylersville. Lamar used to have trout but now is a federal hatchery. I got the Tylersville Lamar hatchery screwed up my bad.
 
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