Enormous rainbows

[JDTuna]

Originally Posted by bigfishy

Impressive for sure buuuuttt??? triploids rite next to the farm thats raising them?? common...Would it be more challenging to cast into the holding pens and try to fight them out to the river??Guess i'ld do it if i lived there but not often....New Zealand has lots of gigantic native and wild trout that would keep me busy over those engineered mutants.....I think RV toyed with the idea of stocking triploids at one time...Not sure what the hold up waz? Impressive size none the less

The rainbows and browns in the canals are a wild, self sustaining populations. They are not tripod, or stocked. Pens were used to raise salmon, not trout.

These canals hold both brown and rainbow trout up to 40 pounds. No trout fishery in the world can produce as many trophy wild trout.