Carl,

Why not??? Because most, if not all, Lake WA cutts are decended from sea-run stock. Sea-run stock doesn't get much larger than 6 pounds.

That 15 pounder is the equivalent of growing a quarter horse from a pair of Shetlands... not saying it doesn't happen, but it's rare.

Now, maybe the state or the UW fisheries was playing with beardslee's... and plunked some in Lake WA. I think beardslee's are the Crescent Lake cutts.. those are the ones I'm thinking of. Last I checked the Crescent Lake cutts would run in the mid and upper teens. Then again someone could have put some Lahontans in, but this one didn't have the coloration of one.

Whichever strain it is, it's still a herking sized cutt.
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