FWIW, I stocked CC a number of years ago and clipped the adipose fin off of all of them.
Fast forward 5 years, when the CC are now all 5#-7#. I caught one that was 12" in length.
I started to panic thinking I had reproduction in the pond, then I noticed that the adipose fin was missing........... It never grew.
Thanks esshup.
That 13 inch albino CC may be one of my original albino stockers that I put in in early May of 2016. I never saw it this year until I caught it, so for some reason it never comes to feed, and did not grow. It probably didn't come to feed last year either. It's still in the pond, AFAIK. The CC I stocked in my new pond this past March are now about as big as that one albino.
I have noticed that my regular (gray) CC all stocked at the same time at 5-8 inches in fall 2015 now vary widely in size, caught and weighed from 1 lb 14 oz up to 5 lbs even, but I didn't realize that some may fail to grow much altogether.
