Golden Rainbow ?

[Nighthawk]

Mountain Springs (formerly Rainbow Run) trout pond near Highlandville, Mo used to keep a bunch of these. My grandsons and I used to catch 'em all the time.

[Buzz]

Cool fish, Buzz do you suppose this is how you caught that monster in Hickory?

I have one final left, then freedom for about 3 & 1/2 weeks. So I'm looking forward to going out and getting a little fishing in. Wish I could hook into a fish like that, just for the novelty of it.

Tight Lines

I still have no idea how the fish I caught got into Hickory. It was way too big to have grown up there. We had a lot of big rains the months before I caught him, so I'm guessing it washed out of someones private pond or spring.

The thing about this fish is that it was caught way upstream from Shoal Creek, assuming it was an escapee that was washed into Shoal, and quite a ways downstream from the next possible location it could have come from. Hard to figure out how it got in there, unless someone put it into the mill pond and it washed down from there. I'll be keeping an eye out for more.

Come down if you have time and we can hit Capps.

[Indiana Trout]

I read somewhere that those were bred specifically to be easy targets for eagles. It was some website dealing with streams in the Cherokee reservation in NC...