2 personal best Salmon

[deadlake]

Great fish In 7th, opposite shoreline from boat launch, up the lake west near the first point , great spot I have caught some good ones there.

[longlake]

Congratualation! Nice fish! I know that sunrise from anywhere <smile>

[SalmonAndStriper Stalker]

I highly doubt any brown trout will have eggs coming out of it once you put it on the ice.

its really common for browns to leak eggs when you catch them thru the ice. they spawn in fall/winter. happens all the time for me.

[tblaster123]

its really common for browns to leak eggs when you catch them thru the ice. they spawn in fall/winter. happens all the time for me.

Brook trout spawn in the autumn as well so then I guess it happens all the time with all trout, just in my 30+ years of fishing I've only seen it happen with broodstock salmon. My bad guys sorry for the misinformation

[Westfirefighter]

100 % salmon. the hatchery is 15 minutes away and they release the old breeders in there when they dont produce enough eggs to keep in the breeding cycle. We have this debate with a million ppl every year when they post their fish pics. I was there when they caught these fish and showed them the Vomerine teeth on roof of mouth and how to know the difference.
 https://www.maine.gov/ifw/fish-wildlife/fisheries/species-information/difference-salmon-brown-trout.html
These fish only had the single row not the double the brown trout have.

Being one of the guys who stocked them they look like one of our 5 year old broodstock.

Just to clarify. We release all of our fish after 5 years..it doesn't have anything to do with lack of eggs. But due to lack of space in the tanks... we can hold more 3 year olds than 5 so we just rotate the fish through the hatchery and gives us more viable eggs during the egg take.

[Robertson]

Nice fish guys
JTrottaNY  - that's the 1st time I have heard of that thanks for the info

[Chud Hook]

Not debating anyone's opinions here but on the eggs comment, I caught a rainbow that was full of eggs a couple weeks ago. Having a family member in town who is a fisheries biologist, she explained how ita not uncommon for stocked fish not the release their eggs and you find them over ripe. She said to look for "bullseyes" (like yolks) and that's a sign that they are over ripe- also means that they weren't going to spawn.

JTrottaNY were you a cross country runner?

[JTrottaNY]

JTrottaNY were you a cross country runner?

Nope, must have me confused with someone else. I would struggle to finish a 5k lol, not exactly built for speed, unless it has a motor