WV record Golden trout caught

[Johnsfolly]

On 4/30/2026 at 8:34 AM, Quillback said:

And then there is the triploid controversy, world record rainbow was a triploid escapee from a net pen.  

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When this rainbow was caught I felt that triploids should not be considered in the same categories as the diploid fish in terms of species records. many of you know that I love to fish trout wherever they are. I fish lots of different environments for mainly stocked trout and others for streambred and wild trout. I would love to catch one of those broodstock bruisers. I just have a hard time considering it as a state record. 

[Quillback]

The Washington state record rainbow is a triploid.  25 lbs. and change.  The Colville Indian tribe runs a net pen operation on Rufus Woods lake, they raise triploid rainbows.  Some of them escaped, but they still hung around the pens eating food that fell through the nets, that 25 lber. wandered off and got caught.

The tribe started stocking triploids in Rufus Woods shortly thereafter and their are some big ones caught by anglers fishing up there.  There are some pics on the webz, just do a search on Rufus Woods rainbows.  Big pigs.