I kno this is maddd years old but the back and forth of possibly wild possibly holdover blah blah is drivin me crazy reading. This is as wild as it gets. That’s 100 percent a wild brown. Even a fingerling stocked brown that grows for yearssss in a stream to get that big won’t look exactly like that. A holdover could never gain sum of these traits. That is a wild brown. Born and raised.
I got out this morning before Easter dinner on Bobs Creek. I fish it occasionally throughout the year and mostly pick up stocked bows. I know the upper end holds a good population of native brookies, but I've never caught too many browns there. Fins looked pretty nice on this guy and he looked pretty healthy and fat. I pulled him out of one of the heaviest fished holes on the creek which surprised me that he was in there. Think he's wild or just a good looking stockie?
Fins are kind of dark and more opaque than most wilds I catch. The tail is also on the small size. Nice fish but I would not say for certain it is wild. It can be hard to say especially with only one photo.I kno this is maddd years old but the back and forth of possibly wild possibly holdover blah blah is drivin me crazy reading. This is as wild as it gets. That’s 100 percent a wild brown. Even a fingerling stocked brown that grows for yearssss in a stream to get that big won’t look exactly like that. A holdover could never gain sum of these traits. That is a wild brown. Born and raised.
Dude there’s a million different looks for wilds man. I’ve caught half dozen complete different looks for one single stream on many different occasions. All wild. Ones with dull colors. Ones that are butter. Ones with dark blue behind eye. Ones wit no blue. Ones with bright halos around all dots others no halos vibrant reds hardly any reds. Dots and tons of black alllll over and ones with only 5 dots on whole body with huge spaces Alll being wilds. Even from same body of water. This fish here has spots on edges of tail like wilds. It has the black on back that just has that look to it I’ve seen a million times. It bas the white that haloes around both the black and the red dots. It has the look to it’s eyes and it looks like it has chompers in that big male mouth. White and black on it’s fin. And it has red adipose fin!!!! That is 100 percent a wild brown. Plus bobs is known to have a healthy population of wild trout.Fins are kind of dark and more opaque than most wilds I catch. The tail is also on the small size. Nice fish but I would not say for certain it is wild. It can be hard to say especially with only one photo.