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Originally Posted by loochy
One of two things:
they are fat stocker brooders that were put in the river after they were already big.
or
fish are VERY good at staying put during flooding. They will almost always move up into the shallower, slower water during flooding.
I lean toward number 1. Wild fish (or fish that are holdovers from previous seasons) are never that fat. They just don't look like that. THIS is what a fish that has been in a river a while looks like:
See how strong and lean it is, and see how the fins are nice and crisp? That's in stark contrast to a hatchery trout, which may turn into fat abominations from learning to gorge on pellets at the hatchery. |
By the way...that's not me. That was just a picture I found that illustrated my point.