Afternoon Memorial Day trout ...

[BaseballFisherman]

Originally Posted by jpd0144

I did notice something that had me curious about today ( or should I say yesterday since it's after midnight ) If you look at the fin on one of the fish I kept and the back of another ... They seemed to be banged up a bit. I turned loose several fish 16/18" that look like they had been to war. They seemed to be beat up more than normal ? Also the smaller fish off the birds were clean cut. Any rhyme or reason to that ?

I fished yesterday afternoon also. I was on a good bite for about an hour and noticed that gafftop were chasing our trout all the way back to the boat as we reeled them in. One of the largest gafftop that I have ever seen sucked a 16 inch trout right off of my line as i started to flip that trout into the boat. Some of our smaller trout had war wounds similar to what you described. Maybe this was happening with your group of fish also?