Went fishing today for the first time in about 6 months, and caught a stocked rainbow a touch under four pounds which fought probably the hardest and longest fight I ever had out of a stockie. After taking it home and gutting it I noticed lots of roe inside it. Never seen this in a rainbow before. Is it normal?

Incidently wanted to go C&R after this so switched from a 4wt to a 7wt rod thinking that I could get the fish in quicker, caught one and actually got arm ache it took me so long to get the fish in. Have been to this fishery before but usually in the summer and the fish usually just gave up the ghost after a brief struggle. Cold weather obviously suits bows better.

This is normal in non Triploid Rainbows.

Jim

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thanks for the reply Jim. I thought they were all triploids? I am sure that the lake has an outlet into a near by stream so would have thought that they would have to be?

I had one two weeks ago from a small fishery down south,crammed with eggs.Guess one or two slip through the process now and then.

The triploid process has about a 97% success rate. At least thats what the scientists say

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I may well be wrong, I suspect we'll need a marine biologist to clarify it, but my understanding of triploid fish, whether rainbows or not, wasn't that they could not produce ova, but that such ova would be infertile - thus rendering the triploid fish unable to breed. They can still produce roe, but they cannot produce fry.

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Non triploids are cheaper. and I believe ''as yet'' are not illegal

Jim

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The triploid process is not 100% and you will always get some females with roe eggs in them around this time of year ,nothing wrong with them they are fine .

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Kevin

Some suppliers seem to have a very poor triploid conversion rate.Like 0%.

Jim

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I remember at Lechlade once my pal caught what would have been a double....til it shed several pound of eggs as he held it up. Had us (ok me) in stitches as he held up his prize "double" over the side of the punt....and a seemingless endless stream of eggs poured out, leaving the most ugly, flabby empty sack of a fish I have ever seen

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