Originally Posted By: cohobankie
What then do you call the spawn of a hatchery fish and a wild? What happens when a hatchery fish spawns naturally and it's kids grow up without parents only to learn life the hardway? Do the Hatchery babies grow up to be sissy fish or can they kick some azz like their wild cousins? My guess is the hatchery fish are like ivy league kids put into a dangerous part of a large city. It just eats them alive. Enlighten me....


They will still be wild fish. They'll look like wild fish, act like wild fish, fight like wild fish, but they may not have the reproductive capabilities of 2 100% wild fish by the time they return to a stream to spawn. Will all of them build beautiful textbook redds? Probably not. Some of them will though.