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A Rookie Question... What are parr marks?? Thanks in advance to any answers.

Here's a photo of a parr-marked fish:

The purplish vertical blobs are parr marks -- found on young rainbows.

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It's also possible some rainbows are moving into tributary streams (Roark, Bull Creek, etc), and spawning there, with the younger fish dropping back to the main lake sometime after hatching. It's not uncommon to find trout in many of the lake's tributary streams throughout the year

Not a Taney expert, by any means, but from what I've read this is a real possibility. I would think the high water flows would disturb redds to some degree too, but I know there's in-stream reproduction of browns in AR tailwaters.