Quote Originally Posted by coombro View Post
No doubt they were stockers usually they stock with those little 9" trout. dark colored yet we didn't tag into any of them. Stocked it with some nice rainbows. Took them out of different tank at hatchery. Think the kwfd beefed this stocking up to promote park opening.
I think what you were catching were holdover trout. I didn't see but maybe one or two 12 inch fish at the stocking when I was there and I was standing in the water near the end of the pipe that the fish were coming out of. Those trout can hold over there pretty well in the winter and spring and they will grow.

Who told you they took them out of a different tank at the hatchery? Nobody that I talked to at KDFWR mentioned it when I was there and I talked to a lot of them.

Btw Coombro, there are not smallmouth in that creek so I wouldn't even waste my time fishing for them!