Spring river fattie 8/21

[netboy]

Caught this gal on a white woolly bugger. Weighed 5.4 lbs on my hand scale. She was spewing eggs as she swam away which seemed strange for this time of year.

Water was pretty dirty from all the rain.

[Johnsfolly]

That is just a giant rainbow! It does seem early for her to have ripe eggs. Great job on a great fish!

[snagged in outlet 3]

That's a freak!!  Nice one too.  I think I've seen hatchery trout spew eggs in just about every month of the year.

[Quillback]

Wow, that is a biggun for sure.  I read somewhere that the genetics on hatchery rainbows are screwed up and that's why you might see spawners at any time of the year.

[netboy]

7 hours ago, Quillback said:

Wow, that is a biggun for sure.  I read somewhere that the genetics on hatchery rainbows are screwed up and that's why you might see spawners at any time of the year.

Probably true.

Now that I think about it, I see males dripping milt all year.