Flat Brook Rainbow

[Dave B.]

Originally Posted by dakota560

Welcome to the site. FB has a lot of nice water to fish.... Curious what causes the tails of these big breeders to get so banged up? Is it the time they spend in the holding tanks or are their tails clipped? !

No clipping going on, it's generally just rub wear from the concrete raceways. You'll often see the same wear in late fall on holdovers and wild fish although in those cases it's due to redd building during the spawn. I've seen big browns with the lower portion of their tails worn down badly due to spawning activity.