It should be noted that the fish in this post were caught from a Trophy section below BSD in ARKANSAS.
Trophy section regs:
These areas are limited to artificial, barbless, single hook lures only, and all trout caught must be released. By allowing fish in these areas to remain in the stream for several years, rainbow and cutthroat trout should exceed four pounds. Exciting catch-and-release fishing will exist for these trophy-class fish, and anglers may be able to keep a trophy as some of these large fish migrate into adjacent waters under normal regulations.
Until we start protecting the fish at critical times and locations on the Caney we'll never see fish like that in any kind of numbers like they have in ARKANSAS.