Hey Trixy, I have been fishing fazon for a few years, i have only heard of one brown caught . ITs odd since they have been planting them in the fall for several years. My theory is they become large mouth bass food since they are stocked as fry (1-3'' fish). However the rainbow trout fishing has been good since they decided to release our precious steelhead into fazon last fall. WDFW also stocked it with rainbows this past november. The only brown i know of caught was taken at night on chicken liver while fishing for channel cats. The fish you released was it a brown??