riverhunter
11/12/2017 2:19:11 PMThat fish doesn't look like the recent stocking of jumbos. Those jumbos are usually really dark and in full spawning color in contrast that fish still looks like it has some chrome to it. Probably a holdover from previous plants. How was the meat on it?
alxtm
11/12/2017 7:07:44 PMThe meat was light pink. We have fished Beaver quite a few times, but have never seen one that size there.
riverhunter
11/13/2017 11:53:38 AMThat makes me think its a holdover then. Most of the recent stocked fish will have pale yellow mushy meat from being pellet fed
mikep
11/12/2017 5:38:43 PMThe recent jumbo plants include the dark (usually males) and the silver colored females. There are some 12-14" rainbow trout which probably are from the small rainbow trout planted in around March 2017.
alxtm
11/12/2017 7:12:03 PMIt makes sense... looking at the stocking report for the latest one in october, they seemed to be heavier than previous stock