Unknown Pond

16 inch brook trout!!!. My pb by far. Drove 2.5 hours and hiked another 30 minutes to get to Unknown Pond in Ferdinand and it paid off. I was able to take a boat out on the pond(the book where I found this pond said the boat was for anyone to use), and fished for about 5 hours. I went back to my roots of fishing a spinner on my ultra light setup and it was just awsome. There were so many brook trout in this lake. It took a while to figure out that they were a little deeper, but once I started anchoring the boat, I was catching a ton of fish. I'm almost positive the giant was stocked, although I don't know if it would be a broodstock or a large holdover. I do think that the second biggest fish i caught, the colored up male, is actually a wild fish. There was a survey done on the pond and about 20% of the fish are wild. I also caught a golden shiner on the fly, not sure if they are native to the pond or not, but I let it go. Today was just the perfect fall day to go fishing, and I was rewarded for going out.