ruours on hayward

[w3stc0ast_0n7heFly]

I was talking to a guy at work today. i was only on the job for a few days. he says he was fly fishing a the bass lands i love, and caught tons of fish. awsome news. then he moved the conversation towards hayward. that little dinky pond right next to the lake. i have caught small fish from there. but 2 pound trout!!!!!! ahhhhh!!! is this true. does nebody kno of big fish from there? any tips! ahaha.


thanks
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editops i spelt RUMOURS WRONG!

[chauchey]

In my experience, people have no clue how much a fish weighs. I measured a standard sized and proportioned rainbow out of a local lake(chilliwack area) at 18 inches and using the (LxG^2)/800=fish lbs formula, discovered it was about 1.82lbs, accurate to within 10%. So I was at that same lake a couple weeks later and this guy is on shore so we chat. He talks about how he caught a big one that day, must have been 4lbs. I said really? How long was it? He said 18 inches. I was polite, told him my experience with 18 inch trout on that lake, and he said 'man that fish must have been starving! I lift 5lb weights all the time at work and this one was about the same!'. Not wanting to push the issue(it didn't matter to me at all) I left it at that.
But 2lbs? Sure, I could see that. Most lakes around here that get triploided fish could hold 18 inch rainbow trout. 2lbs would make it about 19 inches. Maybe 18 but it would be a real porker, with likely a swollen belly full of something! Even a puddle could hold fish to 2lbs if it had some decent hatches and wasn't over stocked/fished.

[11th Warrior]

I've caught 18-20" cutties here on the Island and they weighed between 1.9 and 2.2 lbs with a lip scale. I don't measure girth because I don't like handling the fish that much.

[w3stc0ast_0n7heFly]

but at this particular lake. its wierd.

[featherfisher]

I grew up 3 houses up from the dam and fished hayward and the surrounding beaver ponds all the time. The biggest trout I've ever caught in the ponds were 14'' maybe 15'', but they are chunky, lots of feed in the ponds. As for the main lake, I have caught cutties up to 19 '' on the fly, and my friends have caught trout of both varieties up to 23'', and bigger ones have been lost.