Missouri's next record brown trout

[Seth]

@Phil Lilley @duckydoty I'm assuming Frank is too large to be a triploid, but I've heard you guys mention that he has been hanging around for over a year now. Does he ever vanish in the fall for the spawning run or just he just camp out around your area?

[Phil Lilley]

We haven't seen him since they've been generating.  And Yes he is a trip!  He was probably hatched in 2010.

[JestersHK]

The one we caught in December had intact fins, and as aggressive as she was with hitting a jerk bait twice not 10min apart I wonder if she may have been protecting eggs?  She was certainly swelled up and eating well...

I have to think and hope that there's at least a state if not a world record fish in there somewhere.

[duckydoty]

Frank stayed pretty close to the dock during the spawn

[Ryan Miloshewski]

1 hour ago, JestersHK said:

The one we caught in December had intact fins, and as aggressive as she was with hitting a jerk bait twice not 10min apart I wonder if she may have been protecting eggs?  She was certainly swelled up and eating well...

I have to think and hope that there's at least a state if not a world record fish in there somewhere.

There is. If not now, soon. Look at Frank..he is only 9 years old. The amount of shad coming through every year and the stocker rainbows provide a smorgasbord.

[Seth]

Wow! I was assuming Frank was a diploid since he was so big. That is a crazy growth rate!

[tjm]

11 minutes ago, Seth said:

Wow! I was assuming Frank was a diploid since he was so big. That is a crazy growth rate!

I thought the consensus was that trips grow faster  and larger than real fish? All that energy lost by breeding stress goes into growth?

[Seth]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

I thought the consensus was that trips grow faster  and larger than real fish? All that energy lost by breeding stress goes into growth?

They do. There have been several triploids around 20# already caught, but Frank is well estimated to be well over 30#.

[Johnsfolly]

If Frank just eats the rainbows from the cleaning station it could put on a lot more weight than those browns that chase down their meals or have to swim up to the dam for shad. Simply because it expends less energy to secure high fat and protein meals than other browns.

[laker67]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

If Frank just eats the rainbows from the cleaning station it could put on a lot more weight than those browns that chase down their meals or have to swim up to the dam for shad. Simply because it expends less energy to secure high fat and protein meals than other browns.

Sounds like Frank is doing exactly what triploids are supposed to do. Eat, grow big, and eat more. When these larger trips first showed up in the livewells, I think 2 years ago, I said then to several people, that within the next 3 years, a new record will come from taneycomo. I really thought it would be this year. And when it happens, it will be an ongoing thing until we run out of triploids. Someone said in an earlier post that the triploids should have a separate  record class all their own. I am inclined to agree.