You don't find these on the scum line.

[Walleye Express]

From the guy who brought to you that Lake Simcoe Monster of a walleye picture comes yet another fresh water Leviathan from the deep. A rainbow trout like no others before it. Another true freak of nature so gorgeous yet so hideously grotesque one wonders if it's nightmarish features are real or not. And seing identical twin brothers holding it up makes it even more freakish.

[EdB]

Wow, where did that come from?

[Walleye Express]

I found out since posting the picture that this is just one of the hundreds of rainbows that escaped from a pond during high water into a lake in saskachewan. These two brothers have devoted their lives to catching what monsters these fish have become because they do not spawn but simply keep putting on weight in their (forage rich) environment. They say one of the brothers has become so obsessed with catching these brutes he and his bride to be broke up over it. I'm sure after catching this particular fish, he's pretty sure he made the right decision. :no:

[GLF]

That looks like some of the fish in the tank at Cabelas. I wonder if they allow people in "after hours"???

[captain_crabass]

Heres his site with some more info

http://www.fishinggeeks.net/

[Walleye Express]

And heres the ESPN link that tells the story as well. http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=2901070

[Priority1]

One huge trout. It looks like it swallowed a football. It does have the shape of a huge Brown.

[Salmon Chaser]

They are call triploids and are becoming quite the item in the Pacific Northwest.In the Columbia River below Grand Coulee dam the Native Americans raise them in net pens.They are a fish that cannot reproduce and are eating machines. 20-30 pounders are not uncommon and put up a fight of epic proportions. Their meat is blood red and taste wonderful....

[GLF]

Can you imagine those in the Great Lakes?????

[Walleye Express]

They are call triploids and are becoming quite the item in the Pacific Northwest.In the Columbia River below Grand Coulee dam the Native Americans raise them in net pens.They are a fish that cannot reproduce and are eating machines. 20-30 pounders are not uncommon and put up a fight of epic proportions. Their meat is blood red and taste wonderful....

To bad none of the Triploid Salmon our DNR tried planting in the late 70's ever showed back up. Everybody thought for a few years that a hundred pounder was going to eventually be caught. But don't ever think Mother Nature (Or man) wont find a way. Read below.

"Production of Trout Offspring from Triploid Salmon Parents"

Many salmonids have become at risk of extinction. For teleosts whose eggs cannot be cryopreserved, developing techniques other than egg cryopreservation to save genetic resources is imperative. In this study, spermatogonia from rainbow trout were intraperitoneally transplanted into newly hatched sterile triploid masu salmon. Transplanted trout spermatogonia underwent spermatogenesis and oogenesis in male and female recipients, respectively. At 2 years after transplantation, triploid salmon recipients only produced trout sperm and eggs. With use of these salmon as parents, we successfully produced only donor-derived trout offspring. Thus, by transplanting cryopreserved spermatogonia into sterile xenogeneic recipients, we can generate individuals of a threatened species.

[dwc67]

Can you imagine those in the Great Lakes?????

a 40+ lber was taken out of gbay off manitoulin island last year or the year before. couch potato of fish they hang around the nets and eat the food that drops through. just troll with something orange and i second they taste great

[Rayman96]

It was mentioned earlier that there were some triploids stocked into the great lakes and from what I have read none survived. With the amount of angling pressure on the Great Lakes, it's very likely that they were caught before they reached any noticeable size difference as compared to regular large fish of the time.