people skeptic about new record trout

[BASSKING]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...npu=1&mbid=yhp

thought maybe some of you would be intrested in this. it also talks a little about geneticly raised larege mouths

[kygorski]

The fish biologist who introduced salmon into lake michigan was working on that process 20 yrs ago. he predicted he could raise chinook salmon that would push 70 pounds.But the money ran out, the hatcherys came down with whirling disease, and that was the end of that.he said it was possible to create 5 pound bluegill, that would have been awsome. Sure miss that kind of fishing.

[RICHYD4U]

I would like to have me a pond full of 5lb gills, that'd be sweet! I've caughten some around the 2.5lb range, and man do they fight! While they are at it, I would like a crappie that goes 10lbs!

-Rich

[jamesdenson]

just make me a 20 lb smallie and i will be happy

[Webby709]

I like this quote “Stop crying and start fishing.”

[BASSKING]

just make me a 20 lb smallie and i will be happy

that would be sweet for sure

[Bonefish]

There should be a separate record for each or this debate will never be resolved.

[jcb]

At least it wasn't caught in Japan <runs>

[creeker]

I think that if it meets all the physical characteristics of a trout, bluegill, etc, you should count it towards the record. If you get into genetic testing of things, I think you're opening a whole new can of worms. You'll have people claim they have the Lake Cumberland strain largemouth record vs the Lake Erie strain, or people will be calling for an asterisk next to a record because its a hybrid strain. And then you'll have to break down the hybrids based on whether it was modified through selective breeding or engineered in a lab.

[jamesdenson]

i think it should get in the record book but thats a cross between a steelhead and a rainbow. so its a hybird and should have its own place seperate from normal trout.

[fishmanrq]

I actually don't think its a steelhead vs rainbow hybrid. It is a triploid pure strain rainbow. So instead of having two normal genes and a pair of sex genes, it has just 3 copies of its normal genes. So this rainbow doesn't even think about reproducing, just eating like a monster. So kind of like a hybrid striper I guess

[jamesdenson]

ok i thought that they was steelheadx crosses but they still shouldnt count but should have there own place in the record books