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Stegalaw
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Help solve the argument

Post by Stegalaw » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:16 am

What type of trout is this
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Bodofish » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:45 am

Rainbow and a fat one at that.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by rpm10 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:17 am

Where was it caught? Could be a steelhead, chinook, possibly a beardslee trout for lake Crescent?
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Bodofish » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:30 am

Rainbow, steelhead, same thing, down to the DNA. Shape of the anal fin precludes it from being anything but a trout.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Teal101 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:55 am

Rainbow trout, just a chromie one.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by G-Man » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:39 pm

I'm with Bodo on this one. With all the hybridization going on at the hatchery and in the wild it can get a little confusing. The spotting on a rainbow is different than that of a cutt. On our searun cutts, the spots are actually hollow dots or open c's, have a look at some of the posts from lake Washington. Also, the mouth on a cutt is much bigger than those on a true rainbow with the lower jaw extending well past the eye. You can also check for basibranchial teeth, however not all cutts have them and some rainbows do so it isn't an absolute indicator.
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Post by Toni » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:03 pm

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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Gringo Pescador » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:05 pm

Toni wrote:Big
Naw - that's just a little rod/reel :tongue:
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Stegalaw » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:39 pm

He caught it in lake Cresent
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by G-Man » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:49 pm

Which one, hopefully not Lake Crescent in Clallam County.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by islandbass » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:08 am

Doesn't look like a beardsley, but it could be. That is a fantastic place to fish. Hope to catch a beardsley the next time I am there. I caught a cutt there and an employee working there told me it was a beardsley so I am as confused as you, lol. I can't make a good guess.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by natetreat » Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:54 pm

That's a nice rainbow. I was going to go with big, but Toni beat me to it. :) Chromy cutts can look like rainbows too sometimes, it can be hard to tell the difference.
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Re: Help solve the argument

Post by Teal101 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:39 am

Stegalaw wrote:He caught it in lake Cresent
If it was caught in Lake Crescent in Clallam County it is a Beardslee or Blue Back form of the Rainbow Trout. They are endemic to that lake and only that lake.
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