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Originally posted by Bruce Condello:
Wow! Great post, Cecil. Isn't that interesting? It's always something like that. Exceptional fish coming from a situation that provides for optimal foraging theory. Massive calories in, few calories out. Every single situation where you see a giant fish you can tie it to this phenomenon.

The Nebraska state record striped bass was caught near a power plant discharge. This fish was an unheard of 64 pounds, 15 ounces!! Apparently there was a time each fall at Sutherland Reservoir that the warm water discharge would attract tens of thousands of ailing, cool weather stressed gizzard shad. The striper was also, IIRC, a member of a 100 fish stocking, as compared to other stockings in nearby Lake McConaughy that were huge by comparison.

Neat deal.
And Herring are an oily fish too boot just like rainbows. One theory on why northerns get bigger in Europe is they have oiler fish to feed on.

Be right back I need to overfeed my browns one more time... ;\)

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.