Salmon have a much shorter life span than a Rainbow or cutthroat or char. Dont tell me than penned escaped salmon fed on stunted dollies and kokanees etc. and attained the sizes you stated.
You havent stated what lake.....Would this be Jose Canseco Lake?
Salmon have a shorter life span than Trout? Thanks for letting me know that.
If you don't believe what I posted fine. I was responding to a post letting people know what I and many others have seen.
If you better understood the circumstances and life cycles of these types of lakes then you might be better educated about understanding what I posted as being true. Springs are not going to get to 20lbs + and the Coho would probably not reach double digits but the sizes I stated are accurate.
I guess you would find it hard to believe that we were catching 6-12lb Cutthroat in that area during our brood stock fishery also.
On some of these lakes you can put on a fly that has any kind of orange or red in it and catch small Kokanee cast after cast once you find the schools and right depth. Some of these school look like herring balls in the ocean. I also know people that scuba dive these lakes and will see nothing and all of a sudden run into huge schools of baitfish (Kokanees , atrophied Dollies and Sticklebacks).
Soxaroo, I will not post the Lakes (only one of them has the Springs in it that I'm aware of), but I'm sure many members probably know of or can guess the lake if not the area. Hopefully they will keep it off the internet and respond to the people that want to know through e-mail.
Certain lakes in this area have suffered dramtically over the last 10-12 yrs with the loss of some very large Cutthroat from over and illegal fishing.