“It looked like a tarpon,” he remembers saying to another angler on the creek. The rainbow trout measured 30.5 inches long ...

Rainbow: These fish have a pink lateral stripe, dark spots and shiny scales. They have a greenish color and their tails have dark spots. The majority of stocked trout in Pennsylvania are rainbows.

The rainbow trout measured 30.5 inches long with a 17.75 inch girth and topped the scale at just over 11 pounds. “It was a good one, it’s a beauty,” Hunsicker said. “I was pretty excited.