I've just read an article in a Northern fishing monthly newspaper in which the author writes of his techniques for catching large wild brown trout in rivers. He includes in the article a photo of a superb 4lb 10 oz brown trout.
The article left me wondering - how can you be definitely sure you've caught a wild brown trout and not a well conditioned fish that has been stocked in the water, and then grown in size ?
I should imagine that even if a stretch of river is not stocked with trout, there is the chance that fish will move into the stretch from other parts of the river.
The article left me wondering - how can you be definitely sure you've caught a wild brown trout and not a well conditioned fish that has been stocked in the water, and then grown in size ?
I should imagine that even if a stretch of river is not stocked with trout, there is the chance that fish will move into the stretch from other parts of the river.