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[FirstChAoS]

Nothing much fish related happened this weekend, I slept too late saturday, and wanted to go sampling to scout more convention locations but was talked into swimming on sunday. But I took a walk down to the brook on 32 on sunday to rake pictures of the trout from the bridge with the new camera I got last christmas.

 

All these paralell lines are trout. Glare makes one side of the branch mopre visible than the other but it is a big school. 

 

 

trout seem made to look upward, I can see their eyes clearly from above, which is likely why they get scared when i stand on the bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Matt DeLaVega]

Are those wild fish Josh? Seems like an awful large population for wild brookies. Usually I see a couple per pool, but this is in relatively infertile high elevation streams.

[FirstChAoS]

Wild ones, they gather here summer to fall each year. Been years since any large stocked Brooke's have been put here. Unless someone stocks fingerlings they are wild.

[FirstChAoS]

I checked the stocking reports. None added this year but last year 585 1+ year old brook trout were stocked here This brook and town, not sure of location).

 

Odd, been a long time since I seen the typical 10-12+ inch stocking size trout in this stream. How much do trout grow in a year? These looked very small.