Posted on 01/22/2015 11:54:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
On January 8, Idaho angler Larry Warren caught and released a 28-pound rainbow trout from the Clearwater River near Orofino. It was a fish big enough to best the current state recordset in 2009by 8 pounds, if it werent for a few "technical" circumstances governing the handling of wild fish and how the state evaluates records. Many news outlets are running headlines about the release of this record-sized fish, but few are explaining the regulations that mandated Warren's actions. In an exclusive interview with F&S, the Idaho Fish and Game Departments Clearwater Region fishery manager, Joe DuPont, clarified the situation.
That’s a trick. That fish really isn’t that big. Proportion
it to her hands and they would be bigger than her head.
Or she has really big hands. Still a pretty lady though.
Not with that body-shape.
I’ve caught hundreds of both. That’s a localized rainbow.
I’ve caught a 20 pound steelie. They are much more bullet-shaped. Always. Never that fat in the center.
That bow must have developed a taste for ducks...
I’ll bet money that critter lived directly below a hydro dam, and ate up the chopped fish (probably out-migrating steelhead and salmon smolt) that came through the turbines.
Extreme growth in a rainbow that causes a fat center like that is usually associated with extreme food supply.
Yea, that was one of the explanations given in the F&S article that was posted........
Steelhead...and she’s holding a fish.
Now she cam make me a fish samich
People will carp about anything...
COLD *chopped fish*
You are correct on all points.
That is NOT a Steelhead.
GREAT PIC!!
THAT is a nice fish. Article never mentions what caught that critters attention. I’m bettin’ that dude was a bait dunker. Chopped fish?
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