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Here's an excerpt from an email I recently received:

>Attached are a few pictures of a rainbow trout angled from the McGregor
>Bay in the Espanola area earlier this afternoon. It is definitely a
>domestic strain quite probably a cage culture "triploid" escapee
however
>it was angled legally in open water and at 40+ pounds, it shatters the
>current Ontario Record for rainbow trout. It was weighed officially by
a
>postmaster in little current just after it was caught and the official
>weight was just over 40 pounds. With the angler's permission, I have
>removed scales for aging purposes and a dorsal ray for genetics work
and
>then froze it for further study and mounting. I also have the fish
under
>lock and key here at the Espanola Area office and I am asking for
>assistance from you as to what else if anything should be done with
this
>fish before it goes back to the angler for mounting.

>Brendan O'Farrell
>
>Fisheries Research Technician
>
>Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

WOW!

I'm headed up to that area in 11 days. I guess someone already got the big one.

How often do you check your email? Keep opening them, I bet the next one will be about some Obrien fella catching a monster ski on Georgian Bay.

Gees! thats got a belly like mine!

Whoa Easy Taylor.. ..though you make a great point...

That fish was caught Sept 21st, 2005...the mount was at the Spring Fishing Show....

That email seems about 12 months late....

RJ

taylor:

I'm not sure what's going on- I thought this fish was supposed to have been caught last Wednesday.

When I checked the photo EXIF's just now, they show Sept. 21st, 2005.

Looks like one of my MNR buddies is having a little fun with me!

Hook, line, and sinker...

I thought that fish looked familiar!

I think the guy in shorts is a pretty good giveaway...

Yup....it's hard to date the truck liner and towel shots.....but the first photo coulda been from Petrie

I've always wanted to make a trip up there for escapee's

......Chuck!?!

slop wrote:Yup....it's hard to date the truck liner and towel shots.....but the first photo coulda been from Petrie

I've always wanted to make a trip up there for escapee's

......Chuck!?!

Old "Blueback" is still swimmin in that area! I've seen him weighed and put back!

Sure is a biggie

Well there goes my chance at a photoshop credit

what are the escapees you guys are talking about??

-Smitty- wrote:what are the escapees you guys are talking about??

Not sure but I think they're fish from a hatchery where the fish are caged in?

Ken

Escapees I think are refering to the triploid females that sometimes escape from floating cage farms. Because they're sterile they don't waste energy trying to spawn so they grow a lot faster.

Yeah, I remember catching escapees up on Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan. The ice ripped open one ot the nets and let 40,000 bows into the lake. Man, we were catching 4 or 5 pound bows from shore on pratically anything you wanted to throw at them. Aaaah, the good ol' days. They were nowhere near 40 but now my biggest bows around here are barely a pound.