Hi,

I have been sent a question that I cannot answer reagrding the stocking and catching of Brown Trout.

"I don't know how many times a trout can be caught before it gives up feeding. If browns are caught and returned how many times can this happen?"

Your thoughts and comments please

Kindest regards

Dave

There's a lovely Blue trout nicknamed 'Punky' in a fishery near me, which some people on here may know. She's been caught more times than a weeny in a zipper and still keeps taking flies. She's called 'Punky' because she's got a bit big now (5lb or so) but, no matter how often you warn them, people fish too light as it's a small lake and assume they'll be small fish. Anyway she snaps so many flies off she swims about much of the time with a few fly studs in her lip. Then someone who knows the score will go out to catch her and remove the flies. Off she goes again and so it continues.

I haven't been over this year to see if she's still there or gone fins up. I hope she's there bigger and fatter and more spangled than ever, like some burlesque dancer of the trout world doing her gig.