Can You Say Blob, Booby and Mini Lure Blowout!

[AaronJasper]

Look at the size and health of these fish! Unbelievable...

I wonder how many fish were in that truck. You know those fish got hammered right after they were dumped in. I wonder what lake those were put it. That last big bow had some huge shoulders.


Stocking Big Trout

[Johny L]

Aaron, those look like triploids. The extreme girth of the fish and what looks like all female rainbows is indicative of triploids.

My understanding is that the English originally developed those fish for the pond stockings and are quite popular...they like things big over there.

[Walshmiko]

Those are some nice fish but I know where there's better ones..

[Magnet]

Given the size of those triploids, I coulld be happy with a doubleoid or two.

[Davyfly]

The main reason why in the UK triploids are stocked is life span. Due to the fact they cannot spawn.
A typical bow might if lucky live to 3 years once stocked, triploids way longer, and they will grow faster if there is sufficient food base.
The average size of a bow stocked into a public UK reservoir is around 1.1/4 lbs.
Many of the smaller private put and take fisheries stock way larger fish, in some cases over 20lbs, if they can afford to buy them.

I know of a trout that weighed 26lb that cost at the current exchange rate $3,500.
you may wonder why they do it, simply to attract customers to the fishery with the hopes of catching one.

Sam Holland who at one time owned a fishery called Avington was responsible for this back in the 70s. So far as l am aware of he was the first to be able to raise monster Bows over 20lbs.

These piggy fish were stocked into his lake system, at a cost the public could book a day and go fish for them.
I will tell you from experience that these big fish were not as easy to catch as you might believe.

A noted UK angler by the name of Richard Walker who at one time also caught the record Carp, caught one of those bows which would have been a world record, he declined to do so and eat the fish.

Davy

[AaronJasper]

I thought that they were triploids as the body in relation to the head was way off! Those fish do look freakish.

They should try those rainbows out in some of our rivers where there is no natural reproduction. If one of those fish lived through a summer it might grow quite large due to the fact that they don't spawn. They would make for good sport. I have a few streams in mind that might be good for them.

I was talking to a competition angler at the show and he was telling me that they have such a problem with cormorants on all of the reservoirs that they have to stack the fish at at least 15 inches. If they don't, they will be eaten. He said that there is a small 60 acre lake near his home and there are almost 50 of them there. I know that they are a nuisance here, but there they are far worse a problem from what he related to me.

[Davyfly]

Cormorants can devastate a fishery.
I am pretty sure that they now allow permits in the UK to kills them.

Some years ago they devastated the inland fisheries around Denmark, they wiped out the sand eel population which is the mainstay food base for the sea trout.
measures were taken to deal with that. One of which was to go the nesting colonies and destroy the eggs.

Davy