Swafford pond

[jmscon]

Hatchery salmon have the adipose fin clipped, not sure about trout.

[Bullkllr]

Hatchery salmon have the adipose fin clipped, not sure about trout.

Steelhead are all clipped. Trout going into lakes never are; it's called "put and take" for a reason. Most lakes have no natural reproduction and clipping adds expense.

[pianoman9701]

Are those cut throat?

[DaveMonti]

Hatchery salmon have the adipose fin clipped, not sure about trout.

Steelhead are all clipped. Trout going into lakes never are; it's called "put and take" for a reason. Most lakes have no natural reproduction and clipping adds expense.

Good to know!  I stand corrected!

[tonymiller7]

I've never heard of hatchery fish that don't have the adipose fin clipped.  However, I certainly can't claim to know everything!  Perhaps tribe hatcherys don't remove the fins? 

Many regs specify that only hatchery fish are allowed to be kept within a specific fishery.  The indication that a fish is a hatchery fish is the removed adipose fin.

This only applies to salmon and steelhead, Not stocker trout.  The state produces way too many to waste the time on clipping them.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Nice!  I think you had your back to my old house when you took the picture, last one on the north side of Green Mt. Rd before you cross Swofford Pond outlet.

[Cylvertip]

Anyone finds a wedding ring in there, let me know .  Lost it about a month after getting married, 20 years ago...  it will be in the upper 1/3 of the lake on the west side. 

[Alchase]

A couple years ago my son and I were fishing for silvers in Riffe. I prefer smoked silvers or Kokes, to trout for smoking. The silvers in Riffe usually go a pound or better. We got our limit, pulled the boat out at the Mossy Rock Dam Park, and were cleaning them at the cleaning station. This guy walks up to he's the table next to the one we were using. He had a stringer of 12 (himself and two kids) and the smallest on his stringer was at least 3 pounds, the biggest pushing 10 pounds! His string was easily over 30 pounds, with 12 trout!
I asked him were he got all those pigs? He said "power baiting in Swafford pond."
I had seen a couple pushing close to 10 pounds come out of there, but never have I seen a stringer of that size. It even put Rufus Woods strings to shame, and these were not Triploids.
Just friggen huge trout.

[Ridgeratt]

Are those cut throat?

Yes they were coming out of their winter plumage. Not trying to Shanghai the post