SHOW YOUR FAVORITE CATCH ON THE FLY

Hafwit

Adventurer
With the reduction in funding to fish hatcheries in CA, there have been some interesting developments. Other than for a reduction in stocking, the focus is now on pure-bred trout and they have ramped up the efforts to reduce hybridization. Many of the golden trout we see now are actually golden-rainbow hybrids. Getting to the pure goldens often requires going to waters that have never had rainbow trout introduced--thus these are typically in the smaller streams in more remote locations. We used to catch a number of Eastern Brook Trout in the backcountry too, but I think they have mostly eliminated stocking these.

The micro rod and reel is quite fun to use--I caught a 13 inch brown using it that felt like a tuna.
 

Flagster

Expedition Leader
I am glad to see the efforts switch from stocked to preserving the native pure fisheries...would much rather catch a 8 inch native fish than a stocked hog...
That being said here is a pic from Lees Ferry AZ...small rainbow...while now a native fishery still a stocked lineage...
 

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XJBANKER

Explorer
Just getting started in fishing but got 100lbs worth of fillaid fish mostly from a fly rod in Alaska last month. I think I'm hooked.

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Lets breathe some life into this thread.

A beautiful native and wild brook trout from right here in NJ

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A nice wild 'bow from the Housy in CT

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For those that are reading this thread but don't know:
Brook trout are native to the east coast, rainbows to the pacific drainage west coast, and brown trout to europe ( with ours being most likely Germany). They may be wild, holdover or stocked.

For a really interesting read on it check out "An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World"
 
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Atlantic Salmon while I was working on the Ponoi River above the Arctic Circle in Russia this past year. First time swinging a spey rod... I'm hooked. Camp record for the day!
 

Kelboski

Observer
Few from this fall....

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Kelbo
 

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