Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Only had 4-5 hours to fish this morning! Hit a stream that's stocked with Trout! The Trout were feeding heavy all morning and thoroughly enjoyed the treble hooks they ate for breakfast. Bounced around and caught like a dozen Rainbows, biggest was 18 inches! Plugs got em! It was an exhilarating morning of Troutin'!!!! TIGHT LINEZ! YEA BUDDY!!!!

Weeeeeeeee Woooooooo!!!!!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fish...0ba800f2d5_800
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fish...0af8f3d25a_800

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Sweet. Is the first pic a wild, maybe a holdover?

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

That fish was like 8-9 inches and jumped out of the water 7 times! Fought pretty hard. Possibly a spring holdover. If you look at the pic you can see some blueish spots showing through. Hmmmmmm, I'll stick with holdover!

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

nice work

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

I'm not familiar with what the blue spots mean, nor have I ever really noticed them on rainbows.

Either way nice to get a lil cute one along with the fall stockies ;)

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

The cute one was the best fight of the day. The fall stockies are fertilizer for my garden. Young Rainbows and wild Rainbows have some blue spots under the red stripe. I still say it's a holdover with the full fins.

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Nice Rainblows !!!

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

good to know, thanks :)

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

I'm certain that the bluish spots/marks are parr marks that have not fully faded. Fingerlings (parrs) use them as camouflage. The marks are quite obvious on many of the spring-released trout.

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Correct! And thank you for clarifying!

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

I would say that is a runt spring stocked fish that managed to survive the onslaught of spring fisherman.

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Many holdovers in good holding water , I just boxed number 82 trout for fall fishery , what's disappointing is that nothing over 21"'s , looking for one in that 5# plus class fish , but sooner or later I'll get lucky enough to get that fish which would be #41 over 5#'lbs in the last several,seasons all taken on public hard fished streams in NJ & PA . I'm runnin low on time wreck fishing my thing now.
I wanna be like Eddie I'm really tryin' 🐟🎣😱😜

Re: Saturday morning Rain-Blows!!! 11/18
 

Beautiful bows dude! Way to get on them.