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I've got one brown there and a half dozen rainbows...all with in the last 5 years... prior to that...only brookies and small perch as well as a few slime darts... I fish smelt.. right under the ice.. both in close and over the holes.. you can guess where the brown came from...I wouldn't put it past some individuals to take it upon themselves to try and create a different fishery...it's been known to happen...
kind of off topic, but yes people DO do that. My family has had a house on Hills pond for about 25 years. Not a big pond. I've fished every inch of it 1000 times over in 25 years. About 8 years or so ago I pulled my first Larry out of it. Imagine my surprise. Nothing but great smallies for the first 17 years of fishing it. They WERE NOT in there. Now, they are. Hocus Pocus.