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Swans500 -> Yough/Cedar Trout.... (6/28/2008 4:26:49 PM)

Three times in the last week I have fished the Cedar Creek area on the Yough, armed with minnows.
No bass at all but some very hefty rainbows on each trip. Kept a 22" to eat and it had deep pink flesh and tasted like salmon....wild fight as well from them all. These fish are very fat and strong at the moment and in 77deg water,....
....my question is: They are obviously stockies, but do trout reproduce at all in this river or are they this size when stocked....or survive a few seasons in the warm summer waters in that part of the river????



H20Wolf -> RE: Yough/Cedar Trout.... (6/28/2008 8:43:14 PM)

You will get better answers from the guys who fish for them more than I, but last summer I caught several trout in the same day near whittset and the meat on the largest one was pinker and the others white.  I believe the hold over fish have more color than the ones that were recently stocked.

Nice catch btw and 77 degrees is quite warm, bass should be going crazy.



Rick Bass -> RE: Yough/Cedar Trout.... (6/28/2008 10:28:09 PM)

Trout are on the move now,lots of them in the fast water right now also in the deeper holes trying to keep cool.I caught a 19" rainbow last Sunday right in front of a stink pipe near Colter.On a 3" tube.lol
The bass bite is picking up with the warmer water temps.There is alot of 11" fish this year
The trout do not reproduce at least not in the lower yough not sure about the upper yough.The water temps here are just too high and the river bottom is too silty

                                                                         Tight lines
                                                                                      Rick



kyler16 -> RE: Yough/Cedar Trout.... (6/29/2008 8:50:03 PM)

where is this colter at? any where near hazelbakers?



Traillblazer -> RE: Yough/Cedar Trout.... (6/29/2008 9:13:10 PM)

just upstream from elizabeth. between elizabeth and sutersville i believe



Tacklebuster -> RE: Yough/Cedar Trout.... (7/1/2008 1:42:06 AM)

I have volunteered at a trout hatchery for the past 6yrs and from what i have been told by some of the fish biologists is that once the holdovers spend a year or so in the wild they start getting back their physical traits and natural habits. So i would assume that being that their diet now consisits of natural food that may be why they get some color back in the meat. I hope what i said is correct. No fish expert by far, just seemed like a logical assumption.



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