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Originally Posted by jad2t
Do the trout ever get to decent size down there? Or are some larger ones stocked? Last time I was there I was fishing with the TM and caught several fish. One rainbow measuring a hair under 14 inches and one that was a few inches bigger, I got a look at it and it looked to be approaching 18 inches. Right as I was leaning over to pick it up it shook it's way free. I was pretty upset haha. Was I way off on my guess of 18 inches or are they sometimes caught that big below the dam? This was late in the Spring.
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Every time a truck dumps trout into one of the winter stocking areas they release a couple of really nice trout...probably less than a dozen at each location. From what I have read and been told by trout biologist if a stream has a good food source those stockers can grow an inch a month for a few months. Normandy tailrace has a huge crawfish population and the trout that were put there in November have some good shoulders on them by May and June. But at Percy they are not there long enough to do much growing at all.
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