Big Ole Rainbow.

[jdmidwest]

This one rolled out from under a tree root this afternoon,.

[laker67]

Good fish JD, and it does not look as if she has missed many meals.

[TroutRinger]

What a PIG!

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Did it come out of that skinny water behind you ? Wow.

[jdmidwest]

Actually, I rolled it out from under a log at the end of the second island below dam 3. Must have been a breeder that they let loose.

It was long gone before I found it.

[ozark trout fisher]

Now what are you doing admitting that you didn't catch the thing?

I don't have any idea what the water temps are even like on the Spring, but I wonder if that's what killed it. Of course you don't need to look much past old age for an explanation when a fish is that old.

[laker67]

He could have seen JD and died of fright. Just kidding JD.

[jdmidwest]

Every July, they clean out some of the brood stock in the hatchery and release them in the river. This may be one of them. I heard several reports of large trout being caught on Friday. Unfortunately, this one had started to fester when I found him in about knee deep water on a shallow run. Who knows what killed it.

Fishing was slow again this weekend, most were small.

I did see someone with an 19 and 18 lb walleye caught in the area near the Bayou. Nice fish.