I recently went on a fishing trip to the South Platte river between Spinney mountain reservoir and Eleven Mile reservoir(gold medal water) in Colorado. My dad and I caught a couple of small brown trout. The fish had extremely vibrant colors and were very pretty. I believe that they were wild, but I am not sure. So I assume that wild trout are harder to trick into striking, but is there a difference in fighting, average size, coloration, and so on between wild and stocked trout?
