A guy I follow on YouTube fishes that river, and he has some videos of stupid big browns under his dock. He says the giant one eats the guts/carcasses that get tossed from cleaning fish.I’d suspect whatever this guy was eating he wasn’t expending much energy to cause it down. If I remember correctly the big ones are Triploids also. Assuming this one is a triploid as well, but I don’t see it mentioned anywhere?
why is it a surprise it didn't make it? said it was caught on 3# line. that means it was fought to death when caught. they must have been gill fishing or something, and caught it on accident? smoke that sucker up!
Zwiggles.Doesn't matter how fast south you are if you pull water out of the bottom of a reservoir (tail race). That said the White River and Red River are pretty amazing down there. I just wish my state would manage the few natural lakes we have for large trout instead of put and take, and allow us to reestablish smelt as a forage fish.
FWIW I used to work at an Atlantic Salmon broodstock hatchery. We had one big male which was 50 lbs in a 20 foot circular tank with other "smaller" salmon. Every Friday when we would clean the tank and draw the water down, the fish would get winded and lay on the bottom of the tank. He would right himself after an hour. Once he never got back up.Think of this fish like an obese person who doesn't exercise trying to climb Mount Everest without oxygen.
Why wasn't the circular tank self cleaning? All my circular tank systems I built are self cleaning.