Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose brown trout Vs rainbow trout

Joe, sounds like an interesting observation... I guess we'll never know what they were. Rosey red FHM have a similar coloration as palominos do. Maybe someone was using them for bait and released a few into the creek? I have caught a hand full of rosey reds in the wild and wondered how the heck they got there... There are a very few trout streams with naturally reproducing rainbows in them in PA and of those, I am not sure any have shown to have palominos in them. Anything is possible though.

I have caught native browns out of this same creek CJ, 3 inchers that hit spinners. I know it is rare, we have a couple tributaries to approved trout water around here with native brookie and brown populations, but never caught what I believed to be a native born rainbow. I never thought of the rosey reds, I'm going to have to find them somewhere and see what they look like. This happened to me 23 years ago?? I don't know the exact year, I used to take a lot of time off school to fish. My folks said if I made the honor roll I could always have a few extra days, so well, that was a good deal for me. How any child cannot be addicted to the outdoors is incomprehensible to me. My behavior was later controlled by how much woodchuck hunting time I was allowed.

HAHA, if you have a pet store near by they should carry rosey reds as feeder fish... The one creek I caught 1 of the wild tiger trout from runs next to the Penn State Altoona campus. The other creek feeds into the paper mill in Roaring Spring, PA and comes from the source that they use to bottle water for Roaring Spring bottled water. 1 was about 6" the other 9". Sometimes immature hognose suckers have brightly orange coloration, not quite like palomino trout, but they do stick out... I wish I grew up in the country. I loved ground hog hunting as a kid. Fun in the summer time to sneak along with a .22 and whack em in the head or what my grandfather liked doing which was sit back and shoot em at 400 yards with the 6mm.

I've popped a couple at 309 yards, same hole, same shooting position, just more than a couple rounds used, if you catch my "drift". I'll try some of them rosy reds when I get my second minnow pond into production. If your ever up towards Erie CJ, look me up. I couldn't live anywhere else but the country. I even feel out of place on this forum at times, despite a formal education I am but a country boy.

Some great fishing in your part of the state! Been since college at Penn State that I was in the Erie area.