Plan 'B'

I looked at the Hagg stocking schedules on the odfw site to try to get an idea of how many of these monsters they put in Hagg to determine if I should head out for a big one too.  For the last 4+ years they only planted "legals" no "larger" or "trophy"  fish.  It sure looks like a brooder by the head and tail. Do they dump fish in and not tell us and if so when can I meet the truck at the ramp??

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/trout_stocking_schedules/2008/willamette/north_willamette.asp

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2007/feb/11.asp

This press release says there were 120 brood trout planted in 2007, but I didn't see any in that planting schedule you linked to.

-Allen

that fish has probably been in there for a couple years...

that's gonna be some good smoked planter there Spot..

Bingo!  there be monsters!  Those fish could get to scary size if they keep growing on a steady diet of planter trout/panfish etc..

Get the heck out of here! That came out of Henry Hagg!?!?!?!

Spot,  YOU really are THE man!

Very nice.  I trolled all over the lower Columbia on Saturday from Willow Grove without any luck.  Dang net was right there the whole time.  I'll know better next time.

Great report.

Oh crap... Spot's on a quiet roll. Be afraid... be very afraid..

Congrats man. At first I was like the others thinking it was steel... then the stubby tail. Still a great looking planter!

Z

I guess I'll have to follow through with my threat to go to Odell or Cresent this year for Lake Trout.

This is going to be my secret plan too....

Last year Munsel lake was stocked with the usual batches of normal and trophy size trout. They also stocked 150 steelhead spawners, and that was never on the regular schedule. It seems that the fish stocking truck was passing through our area when it developed aeration problems, and they had to dump the fish at the nearest lake. In past years other local lakes have also been stocked with steelhead. Could Spot's fish possibly had been a stocked steelhead?

By the way, darn nice fish Spot. Thanks for the info, I just went and bought a 5 inch jointed Rapala, rainbow trout colored. Hopefully some of those lunkers are still swimming around Munsel! I'll find out tomorrow.

Nice fish Spot.  I had heard that they dumped some steelhead in Hagg also, and looking at those fillets, looks like you may have found one. 

I was at Hagg yesterday also (alas, I was in the tin can "stink pot), and I saw a yellow yakker accross from the cove I was working one.  Was going to get a closer look to see if I recognize the fisherman, but got sidetracked. 

Funny you mention the birds on the lake, I was also noticing that the lake was "dead" except for all those birds working the middle.  Was with my dad and brother though, and they didn't seem to buy my theory that we should try some surface fishing...wish we would have.   For us we went 3 poles and no fish.

-= Scott

The tail and snub nose says ODFW brooder to me..  A normal tail and I would say steelhead. I am very surprised at how pink the meat is for a lake locked trout.

Hey Scott!  You should have swung by.  Were you out in the Arima or the little guy?

The tail and snub nose says ODFW brooder to me..  A normal tail and I would say steelhead.

Would you believe that fish was a buck?  It had the most veiney milt sacks I've ever seen.

Yeah, after seeing the close up 1/2 fillet shot, it looks more like a brooder. If you didn't know that pic was of a 28.5" trout, you may have thought it was much smaller.  And with Spot's confirmation that it is a buck, even more convinced.

-Allen