24 pound brown

[laker67]

A 34 inch long by 23 inch around brown was caught at taney today. Weight was 24lb and fly rod caught using a #16 scud. Gotta love those scuds for big trout.

[snagged in outlet 3]

17 minutes ago, laker67 said:

A 34 inch long by 23 inch around brown was caught at taney today. Weight was 24lb and fly rod caught using a #16 scud. Gotta love those scuds for big trout.

Any pictures yet, Rick?

[laker67]

They had a picture on fly fish taneycomo but the conversation got ugly and they pulled it.. It is so unfortunate that other anglers have to hate and criticize someone for keeping a trout. Good grief, missouri is not a trophy destination, it is a put and take fishery.

[Phil Lilley]

With the O2 levels dipping this time of year, it may not survive a fight.  Depends... if it was a short fight and stayed close to the outlet - may be.  I've been getting anywhere from 4.7 to 6.5 ppm which isn't terrible.  But I haven't been up close to the dam with the water off this year and taken any samples.

[laker67]

8 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

With the O2 levels dipping this time of year, it may not survive a fight.  Depends... if it was a short fight and stayed close to the outlet - may be.  I've been getting anywhere from 4.7 to 6.5 ppm which isn't terrible.  But I haven't been up close to the dam with the water off this year and taken any samples.

My wife and I fished Sunday. The fish we caught were hot and showed no signs of wear and tear after the battle. 

[Mbrown2858]

Here’s a photo that was on the Facebook page before it was pulled. FYI it’s not my photo, just passing it along.

[Travis Swift]

The guy said he tried to revive it for 2 hours and the hatchery staff even came and took it up to their tanks to try and revive it.  Interesting also another guy commented that his buddy caught the same fish two days prior as well. 

[laker67]

12 minutes ago, Travis Swift said:

The guy said he tried to revive it for 2 hours and the hatchery staff even came and took it up to their tanks to try and revive it.  Interesting also another guy commented that his buddy caught the same fish two days prior as well. 

As you can see from the photo, this is not a triploid so it is an old fish. A real good possibility that this fish is 11 or 12 years old. The stress may have been more than the fish could handle. Life expectancy is about 13 years for this strain as best as I can recall. The fish appears to already be losing some of it's color in the photo. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

In August!!!!    Crazy.  

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, laker67 said:

As you can see from the photo, this is not a triploid so it is an old fish

I'm not up to speed on identifying hatchery mutts.  How can you tell?