bingsbaits
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Wild trout
Found a wild rainbow fingerling last year in the stream that runs through my yard. I'm over 2 miles from Oil Creek and they must have found a way to get up this trickle of a stream. The boy and I were netting fish in the creek tonight and got another small rainbow. Pretty sure it is a bow and not a Brownie, the one last year was bigger and definetly a bow... Has to be a breeding pair somewhere between here and Oil Creek, that's 2 years in a row for a successful spawn. Couple pics...   
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/27 21:26:02
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Good news but shhhhhhhhhhhhh The Amish might read this 
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/27 21:26:13
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/27 21:37:16
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Bings,
I used to find the same baby bows on our trickle on our family farm on Hatchtown, upstream from 5 mile, which in turn runs into Oil Creek. I think you know where I'm talking about. I always wondered how they made it up halfway up the mountain???
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/27 21:41:13
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Definitely a cool find! They look like browns to me though..
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/27 22:18:47
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Bogeyjoker
Bings,
I used to find the same baby bows on our trickle on our family farm on Hatchtown, upstream from 5 mile, which in turn runs into Oil Creek. I think you know where I'm talking about. I always wondered how they made it up halfway up the mountain???
I know right where you were. Still some wild Brownies in that vicinity. 
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/28 06:23:43
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Very cool
Pretty sure those are all browns
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/28 06:48:30
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rainbow 3.5 inches.  Thats cool ...there was a stream in Butler that had wild trout but I,m sure it is wiped out now.
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/28 06:53:27
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/28 07:56:07
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They do look more like those little Brownies than bows after looking at some pics.
post edited by bingsbaits - 2012/06/28 07:58:34
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/28 08:59:29
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the red spots on the lateral line and the yellowish tint to the body and pec fins on the brown... vs the red/green hue on the rainbow with all dark spots
hardly scientfic... but it seams to work
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/29 11:00:52
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/29 13:35:38
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Hit a half mile of stream today with the boy.
Found a couple more small Brownies a half mile upstream from the last one.
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/30 09:04:39
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I'm not sure what part of Oil Creek you are near, but I've caught a few fingerling brown trout in Thompson run over the past few years.
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/30 10:11:01
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Almost to Spartansburg Andy.. Yesterday's find and my stream helpers.   
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Re:Wild trout
2012/06/30 11:50:43
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I think they are rainbows. Wild browns don't have the deep v in the tail that these babies area sporting. But i'v been wrong before.
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