What kind of Trout?

Its been 20 years since I've Trout fished, but decided to have at it this year. The Trout in the pic is the second one like this that I've caught, that I figure is a Brook trout but is different than the others I've been catching. Weird dark color and missing spots.



Odd shape also, deep down thru. Blueish/ purple tint.

Brookies have orange and white fins.

I've caught quite a few brook trout, but never one that looked like that color-wise. Did you catch it in a stream or lake? It wouldn't be a splake, would it? I'm pretty sure a splake is a cross between a brook trout and a lake trout.

Ever see one of these John?

Caught in a mountain stream, but stream is stocked by the Fish Comm.

I googled Splake Trout Trapper and it looks close to the second up in this pic. Top one too.



Close, maybe.

Tiger trout

Had to Google that too. lol


I think you got it White. Not much difference between them and a Splake but Tiger looks closer. Thanks guys!

The pic I found of a Splake has the gill markings closer than the pic I found of a Tiger.

Guess I could call my BIL who ran the cold water division of the Fish Comm. Until he retired. I haven't ragged on him for quite awhile.

I think splake reared in tanks.

Splake and tiger trout are both hybrids, and markings can really vary a lot with hybrids. Looks more like a splake, but I would think it's location would point towards a tiger trout.

Put-n-take. They put them in, you, take them out. Sterile hybrid raised in a tank for your angling enjoyment.
We have them here too.

Yep, they get to meet the board he's posing on.

The crick I was at has loads of Natives...bait stealing thieves! lol

I caught two natives today and two the last time I went up in there.

Not my pic but exactly like the ones native here.

No sir, not in Pennsylvania during the 20 years I fish there back in the mid 60s to mid 80s.

But that little bait thief sure is a pretty brook trout.

They sure are pretty! They all get a pass, even the bigger ones.

hippie, now you got me fired up to go fish some brook trout in a small stream I took some nuisance beaver out of. They dammed the little stream and flooded out the trail he takes to get to his deer stand. He said there were brook trout in there and I was welcome anytime to fish it. My wife sold my trout creel at a garage sale. I didn't think I'd be stream trout fishing anymore. Dang!

First I've gone in years and I gotta say its been enjoyable!

That is what a brooky is supposed to look like!

I'll take a camera next time I venture up there and get y'all some pics. Gotta keep egging John on!

Pretty fish, racer man ...after ya cook those fish, in the same pan, fix a mess of hush puppies to go with those !

Ha!
I didn't think about puppies but remember you explaining them to me.
Now that's an idea ill follow up on!

So long as your not talking about shoes!!!!

Tiger trout.

Cross between a brookie and brown

WV is stocking them here again

I like those better than the normal way of baking cornbread , drop in the butter or oil with a spoon and semi fry them till browned . Since they are round, it's easy to turn them around to brown . Don't need to use a lot of butter, either. Just enough to get them nicely browned !

Thanks

Is there a purpose for the cross breeding or just because they could, if ya know?

Hush puppies is the only kind of cornbread it's okay to put sugar in.

I had not been involved with "tiger trout" but this is how we made the "Splake," a hybrid result when stripping eggs from female lake trout and stripping male brook trout sperm into
a basin while gently stirred with a turkeys wing feather . That's only Step # 1. Tut

Looks kinda like a Tiger Trout

Looks like a brownie to me

Same here

Since the photo back drop is a fillet board my guess is - Trout Almondine

There are Brownies in this crick but they look like normal Brownies...spots and paler until they get the yellow belly after they're in a year.
These stand out from them.

Who needs a creel just cut a willow from along the bank quick and easy to carry with a fly rod in the other hand .
A 3 weight or smaller fly rod around 9' long or shorter will have you thinking you caught Moby Rico's long lost cousin short leaders are helpful to if it's windy .

Hippie, not sure what creek you caught that Tiger from.
But I'd bet it was a local trout club stocking and not the state.

Are you the one I need to come slap for flooding all our great fly fishing streams when they made Raystown Lake?

That's a tiger trout.
Mostly stocked by clubs because they "I'll eat anything" attitude of brookie and the "bulldoggedness" off a brown.

They don't get super long, but get heavy and look like pretty colored footballs.

I'd call

The first pic looks nothing like the tigers I've caught
but
there's more than one strain of brown in Pa. and that may make a difference.
Fish Biologist chick told me the tigers are sterile so harvest or not matters none.
Her name is Brook lol.

I like the trout with pink meat.

typical lookin brown that gets tossed in by the fish commish down my direction

No sir, I was 10 when the flood filled it up. My granddad thought sure it would fail and wipe us out! It held and we only had 9' in the house.

He is cute enough to use for bait if he was round here!

Ha, you folks don't even have your wimmin trained for fishing down there.
Ours don't need instructions on when to hold the boat or get ya closer, they know!

I've heard folks use them for striper bait in the lake Johns talking about.

I musta struck a nerve. Don't be gittin all easily rattled like J Park when a manly man asks him for pictures or what he is wearin!

I guess I did forget to put my mug in the shot of that Trout. If ya need lessons on teaching a woman proper boat maneuvering , most up here can give ya some pointers.

What are you catching Hoss? Bass?

EBT....or Eastern Brook Trout here.....that one might be a tiger trout....ive Nevah caught one,but there are a few lakes up here stocked with them

Large mouth and small mouth both. I see some rainbows but they haven't been cooperative

It is not a splake, they have the white fin markings and are a cross between a laker and a brook trout. It looks almost like a tiger trout except for the color, a tiger is a cross between a brown and a brook trout.

Fillet of sole?

Went up in there again this morning hoping to catch another one of those morphadites but no luck. Brownies were biting and caught a trophy native that I put back, probably 7" er.