Big Dead One

[snagged in outlet 3]

9 minutes ago, Travis Swift said:

All I meant by look at the tail was that it was a huge tail and was thick all the way to the tail.  Just a huge fish. 

Ok gotcha.   It’s a pig all right.  Thx for posting 

[fishinwrench]

58 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

10 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

 

I think I do.  It was a looong time ago wasn't it??

Yeah, it's been a few years I think.

52 minutes ago, laker67 said:

I don't recall this, but the hatchery manager at sheppard told me in 05 that they had been  doing a 4 year rotation of fin clips on brown trout for the past 12 years. That's how he knew at a glance that my fish was at least 12 years old. Maybe they do not consider hatchery people as MDC.

I think the argument was probably specific to the Niangua.  I really don't trout fish enough anywhere else to claim to know anything.  The Niangua and NFOW has been pretty much it for me for the last 8-10 years, as far as trout water. 

[laker67]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah, it's been a few years I think.

I think the argument was probably specific to the Niangua.  I really don't trout fish enough anywhere else to claim to know anything.  The Niangua and NFOW has been pretty much it for me for the last 8-10 years, as far as trout water. 

Unless my memory is completely gone, I am pretty sure they do fin clipping on the river below bennett. Or used to I will say. 

[fishinwrench]

8 minutes ago, laker67 said:

Unless my memory is completely gone, I am pretty sure they do fin clipping on the river below bennett. Or used to I will say. 

They absolutely do, or did.  I haven't noticed it as much in the last several years, but for quite a while you couldn't find a fish with all of its fins still intact.