P4 Brown Trout

Got a nice 19″ brown on pool 4 yesterday.
What a nice surprise.

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that’s a beauty

And some people say the water quality on the Mississippi river is bad. No way a Trout would survive in there if the water quality was bad. Like you said – Bet that was a nice surprise. I hear about one being caught there every once in awhile.

fishthumper wrote:

And some people say the water quality on the Mississippi river is bad. No way a Trout would survive in there if the water quality was bad. Like you said – Bet that was a nice surprise. I hear about one being caught there every once in awhile.

It likely got flushed down from one of the tributaries. An adult will survive in the cold water for some time, but the presence of an individual or two doesn’t say anything about water quality.

WinnebagoViking wrote:

It likely got flushed down from one of the tributaries. An adult will survive in the cold water for some time, but the presence of an individual or two doesn’t say anything about water quality.

I think some fish will simply migrate as well. Slower cold water with food to winter in. As things warm up they move back into the streams and feeder creeks.

It happens every year through the cold water temp mos. Typically, a few muskies will show themselves as well. Ya never know what pool 4 will produce !

Dean Marshall wrote:

It happens every year through the cold water temp mos. Typically, a few muskies will show themselves as well. Ya never know what pool 4 will produce !

Yup & yup

Caught both them now.

Nothing new here, just a beautiful brown to share.

Anyone know if we could’ve kept it?
We concluded we were better off letting it go.

Read mn/wi regs, said go by inland regs from which it was caught.

Read the wi regs(fishing on wi side), which referred to inland reg book for trout. Which I don’t have and figured it would say they’re closed. Kenny who reeled it in did have a stamp.

Same thing is always said….

WTH is that…A BROWN!!

I believe the WI trout harvest season opens with the regular opener on the 1st Sat in May.