Juvenile. Stayed in hike path for about 15 minutes.
Salmon babies?
Stock Rainbow Trout.
I heard a rumor about this wild brown population and just had to go check it out. I wasn't disappointed!
After tossing my trout rig through a likely riffle about 20 times, I decided there was no "big game" to worry about. Of course the instant I tossed out my micro rig for dace it got engulfed by this brownie. I still don't really understand how I landed it...Could be one of the wilds or a holdover stocky. Good fins with white tips and faint blueish cast to gill plates, but also duller spots with no red. Who knows, cool fish either way.