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  • Dec 26, 2011 at 2:44 am #5800
    Avatar photoColin M.
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    Timer photos, mostly focused but not perfect…

    Dry fly…probably a hold over fish possibly an old wild fish in an unstocked stream, these fish move up out of stream with class A water that also receives a stocking from time to time…

    Fought very very hard, atypical for a freshly stocked fish.

    Dec 26, 2011 at 11:51 am #51056
    todd woodcroft
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    awesome…merry christmas charlie BROWN!

    Dec 28, 2011 at 3:08 am #51057
    Avatar photoEric Weller
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    what part of PA was that caught?

    Dec 28, 2011 at 2:27 pm #51058
    Avatar photoColin M.
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    Eric, its from the Eastern part.

    Dec 28, 2011 at 8:15 pm #51059
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    Great fish Colin.

    Zach

    Dec 28, 2011 at 10:15 pm #51060
    Avatar photoJohn Williams
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    Colin,
    You gotta stop callin those drainage ditches streams.
    đŸ˜‰
    Nice fish

    Dec 28, 2011 at 11:22 pm #51061
    Avatar photoColin M.
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    John, you couldn’t be more right, that thing does literally live in a drainage ditch…

    Dec 29, 2011 at 12:42 am #51062
    andrew sturt
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    Very nice mate. Interesting looking fish, very different to what our Browns typically look like.

    Dec 29, 2011 at 11:50 pm #51063
    Avatar photoJohn Williams
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    Andrew,
    That is almost a classic coloration for a Pennsylvania brown. I frequently refer to them as “butter bellies” because of the wonderful golden color they carry on their bellies.
    JW

    Dec 31, 2011 at 2:04 am #51064
    Avatar photoJustin Witt
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    Doesn’t look like any stocker I’ve ever seen.

    Jan 2, 2012 at 4:20 pm #51065
    brian dunigan
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    Definitely not a “stocker,” (i.e., freshly stocked) but maybe a holdover.  Once they’ve been in the water for a year, it’s awfully hard to tell the stocked fish from the hatchery-bred ones, unless there are lingering after-effects from fin damage still present.  Sometimes if a hatchery fish’s fins wear down to the nubs from the hatchery raceways, the fins will grow back with a bit of a crinkle or curl instead of being perfectly straight.

    In the fish in the photo, the pectoral fin facing the camera might have a bit of a kink in it, but it’s awfully hard to tell.

    Beautiful fish regardless of where it was born.

    bd

    Jan 2, 2012 at 6:50 pm #51066
    Avatar photoMichael Phillippe
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    Looks like a raceway in Allentown..without the Big Mac wrappers.

    Great fish! And on a dry!

    Jan 2, 2012 at 11:18 pm #51067
    Avatar photoColin M.
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    Brian that fin is exactly why i think it may have been stocked somewhere at some point.

    Jan 3, 2012 at 7:41 pm #51068
    brian dunigan
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    Brian that fin is exactly why i think it may have been stocked somewhere at some point.

    Great minds think alike.

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