These new plants they’ve put in, are chunky. Had an enjoyable day Sat. once I found the fly of the day. From deep inside my fly box, an old chartreuse wooly bugger won the day..so much fun..
Black Friday Jumbo Trout
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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No longer Black Friday but looks like SW Washington got a big helping of 10 and 5 pounders over the last week….anyone get out to find one? 
edit: Sheese, that part of the state has gotten a buttload of pigs in the last month! Have fun down there
edit: Sheese, that part of the state has gotten a buttload of pigs in the last month! Have fun down there
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Bambooflyguy
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Sure wish they’d stock some of our local lakes…..not just with nasty snakey cutts!
Whatever the color of the pellets they were feeding them in their concrete dungeons. Call the hatchery and ask them what time they feed.... that'd be good time to be in the water.
They haven't been fed pellets for 2 or more years. I was thinking more like a squid or shrimp like they eat in the ocean.
Looks like people are confusing jumbo trout and broodstock.
No kidding? Evidently I know very little about hatcheries cuz I also thought they were broodstock.
Kinda like being happy for and jealous of whoever won the Christmas Eve Hit 5, I really wanna hear some stories and see some pics now
I'm confused by the descriptions of the recent plants in this thread: are these "brood stock" (hatchery only as @Peyton00 suggests with his pellet fly) or are they surplus anadromous "steelhead" returning from the ocean? Or some other combination?No kidding? Evidently I know very little about hatcheries cuz I also thought they were broodstock.
Kinda like being happy for and jealous of whoever won the Christmas Eve Hit 5, I really wanna hear some stories and see some pics now
@Snopro - a dozen (or more?) years ago I was fishing the fly fishing only lake not too far from Dewatto and caught a "steelhead buck", somewhere about 8 or 9 pounds, he ate a black ice cream cone chironomid fished deep, he had a barbed zebra midge with several inches of tippet stuck in his jaw.
Pat,
Based on what @M_D posted, I’d say they are surplus hatchery winter steelhead.
Recycling fish downstream to give anglers additional opportunity seems out of vogue these days with concerns about their interactions with wild fish. If they have enough for their egg take at the hatcheries, they toss the surplus steelhead into lakes.
That is my understanding of what these fish are.
SF
My fault for not being specific.
The title of the thread is black Friday jumbo trout. In pictures people are calling brood stock trout jumbos. While they are 'jumbo" in size it's not what WDFW calls them.
Black Friday Jumbos are 14"-18" and can weigh a couple pounds.
Brood stock are 5-10lbs.
Excess hatchery steelhead are being stocked in lakes, M_D's post #23, and are what I'm trying to develop a consistent pattern for.
