I over wintered 5 of my largest RES from my pellet training project from last summer with the goal or seeing how large I could grow them over the winter. Back in early October I moved these five fish into a 75 gallon aquarium in my basement. At the time I had four RES that were 6-3/4" and one that was 6-1/2". These fish were 3" long when I pulled them out of the pond a year ago and were hatched in 2012.

From late last June.