It may be that some pertinent info has not been included in this exchange. This potential record "catch" was illusory from jumpstreet, due to an unnamed eyewitness who reported seeing this angler net the herculean trout lying in a vegetative state in the shallows. In light of this spurious claim, the angler withdrew his bid for the record, in an effort to spare his family impending litigation. Notwithstanding this controversy, I think that it may be myopic to lambast farm raised fish. Note the example of Texas F&G, who have instituted a subsidized statewide policy that gives fisherman financial incentive to return lunkers to hatcheries, that they may be bred with other hogs in an attempt to create a genetic bottleneck effect of producing large offspring. Now if SARL gets hatchery fish that are transgenically modified using some type of vector as opposed to promoting good old fashioned mating between two lloyds, then I'd have a serious problem with that. But they are a private enterprise and probably do not fall under the FDA provision for genetic labeling of food, drugs, or cosmetics anyway. I doubt very seriously that the SoCal anglers have any problem with catching such lloyds down there. The locals love that darn place!
Me, I'm actually kind of jealous. They stopped planting the reserviors of the South SF Bay area. Most of the time I get skunked at bass or go to one of the pay lakes in the East Bay, like Del Valle, where I wish they had some SARL type lunkers.


for more info on SARL and the locals, check out fishinghotpage.com.

Ahhhh SoCal . . .