Trout growth over winter
How much do trout grow over the winter? Went to a stocked trout pond where I caught mostly 11" fish last year. Yesterday I was catching slightly fatter 11-12" fish. There's no lack of food in the pond, massive hatch of mosquitos, tadpoles, frog eggs, snails, midges, water bugs and red worms (look like blood-worms) of various sizes. I guess I thought the fish would have put more length on instead of solid fat weight. Still learning...
Also most of the fish I landed were silver but one had much more vivid colorings. Most noticably it had black markings on the gill plates (terminology?) where all the others were just silver. Is there a way to tell male vs female rainbows? Will post a pic later when I pull my first fish fry of the season out of the fridge.
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