When we started the trophy trout program the rainbow's that we planted in the local lakes went from 4 to 6 pounds. It was not advertised at all so when opening day of lakes arrived it was a bit of a surprise to folks. From rods ripped right off crutches to well about everything! My favorite being the guy paddling down Lake Sylvia in a canoe trolling a fly and zip off goes the rod and the bridge fishers watched fish and rod go right under the bridge never slowing down. It took us forever to get the agency to get that folks would rather have one BIG trout than 6 normal Rainbow plants.

We also tried to rear some and extra year and they went 10 to 12 ibs with some bigger. From what I have been told folks geared up a bit as a lot of " you should have seen the one that got away " were around.