hunt - these chubby brookies were definitely from the hatchery. I'll have to ask WCFG&W if they came from the nursery several hundred feet away from where I caught them. Most of the time they raise browns and rainbows, and that is what I usually catch there. One year the VFTU put in Viebert boxes with cutthroat eggs, but I don't know if anyone ever saw one hatched out.
If you want to catch a W Valley brookie, PM me and I'll put you onto the spot, but there are probably others up and down through the creek right now.
There are wild brookies, and perhaps some natives, not too far from these chubby stockies.