Specs.
You are asking a question that I answered as to what lakes are nearby so you can see if any 25 inch fish have come out of there.
As mentioned before finding one large trout in a lake is irrelevant to anything and you are just disproving your position...
Just saying a lake has produced one big fish means nothing...we need to know catch rates, size ranges, average size. A good basic population profile.
There is always a chance...one fish survived an insurmountable gauntlet of fishermen...
Just because one larger fish was caught...only proves bigger fish can be grown bigger with the proper regulations. For instance...the Giant Bluefin Tuna used to average over 1200 lbs in commercial harvest. Now they average closer to 500 lbs. So does catching one 1200 lber in a year mean the fishery is good again? No...it just means one lucky sod survived a little longer. The fishery is still bad and not improving. Until the average size of tuna starts to increase again...the population is still under stress from over harvest. Same principle here in Alberta with some rainbow trout lakes. Over harvest...stresses the population and the result is tiny rainbows. The other problem is over stocking causing critical food depletion.
It has nothing to do with the right "mix", genetics or fertilizer.
Specs...What lakes in the Hinton area do you like to fish for rainbows that have 5 a day regulations?
Thanks
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