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Fishidiot wrote:
Gemmies are for painting. Smallmouth bass are for catchin!![]()
afishinado wrote:
McSneek wrote:
Maybe it's just childhood memories but I recall the stocked trout we caught when I was a kid being much nicer than today's. Consistent size and better appearance. Nicer fins, no odd shaped heads. They were mostly Browns back then.
PennKev - no. They shall always be referred to as gemmies.
That's not my recollection at all. I think the quality of stocked fish has improved immensely when compared to the back-in-the-day stocked trout. Not that many years ago, the stocked trout were much smaller and at times you needed a ruler to be sure if some were even "legal." Also, all the fish were pale and silvery. You had to look closely just to determine if the fish was a brown, bow or brook.
Swattie87 wrote:
Both stocked, but I defer to others with more knowledge in terms of which specific hatchery.
I wasn’t kidding earlier in the thread when I mentioned how good the stocker Browns we put into Kettle and Little Kettle looked. The Brooks and Bows looked pretty standard, but the Browns were really impressive. Plenty of red, including the adipose and I’m certain some of them had faint eye spots. The two fish pictured above look pretty good for stockers, but the ones we put into Kettle and Little Kettle looked even better. I was really tempted to get a picture of one to post here but the fish, especially the larger ones, were starting to struggle a bit and we needed to get them in the water ASAP. I didn’t want to upset the WCO, as he was encouraging us to get them in as quick as possible. You probably could tell these Browns were initially stocked based on some fin wear, but if that heals a bit from time in the stream I’m sure they could potentially cause a lot of question to their origin, especially amongst the PAFF faithful. :lol: