17 1/2” 1.8 pound trout caught

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Actually, it was open water. Stocked pond in Boise. Just jigged a worm off the bottom, and got it.

Would you mind actually helping me with a conversation between me and a friend of mine? He says this is a stock trout, but I can’t tell if it’s stocked or wild. The meat color is throwing me off. I assume from the meat color its stocked. Is my friend correct in saying it’s a stocked fish? Is there any way to tell besides the meat color?

Stocked or not, it’s a good fish.

Recently stocked trout have white flesh, they turn orange when they start getting a wild diet of bugs and other natural food. Just by looking at the fins you can tell it is a stocked fish, wild fish normally don't have a rounded tail like that one.