So today 3/13/21, I caught a Lake WA trout (rainbow) off a dock using power bait. 16.5 inches.

It was clipped.

Was it a hatchery steelhead smolt that found its way into Lake WA and decided to residualize there?

A late winter run or early summer run hatchery steelhead jack that found its way into Lake WA?

A holdover stocker trout from a Cast for Kids event from the summer (or whenever) that had a clipped fin? (although WDFW usually doesn't clip hatchery stocker trout).

A wild trout that somehow had a malformed/missing adipose?


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