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    Identify this fish

    This fish was caught in Kerr Lake this past weekend
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    #2
    Looks like a rainbow trout.

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    #3
    def a rainbow trout

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    #4
    Trout for sure...
    i have NEVER heard of one in kerr...
    were you WAY up river?
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    #5
    Quote Originally Posted by low slung cruiser View Post
    Trout for sure...
    i have NEVER heard of one in kerr...
    were you WAY up river?
    Nope as far as you can get from the river. Nutbush Bridge .

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    #6
    Might be one somebody illegally planted like they did the spots.

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    #7
    Normally Trout go up stream
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    Photo shop/fake news or a Cali swimbait. I will take 3 in that same pattern and size.
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    #9
    Quote Originally Posted by Cape Fear View Post
    Photo shop/fake news or a Cali swimbait. I will take 3 in that same pattern and size.
    This. The proportions are all wrong

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    #10
    some have been caught in Lake Norman, left overs from striper fishermen

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    #11
    Agree with Frank looks like some of those you buy to fish for striper
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    #12
    People striper fish with them in the winter because they stay alive better in cold water than shad.

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    #13
    Quote Originally Posted by Cape Fear View Post
    Photo shop/fake news or a Cali swimbait. I will take 3 in that same pattern and size.
    Just a skinny trout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cape Fear View Post
    Photo shop/fake news or a Cali swimbait. I will take 3 in that same pattern and size.
    Wrong..im the one that caught it in the CATT at Kerr..didnt know it would end up on BBC..blew my mind but now makes sensé about rock bait..thxs again BBC..