spiritstone
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Post by spiritstone on May 11, 2016 20:29:08 GMT -5
New species "Tigertrout". They were just introduced to a couple pot hole lakes and a couple rivers. Tried my luck out and found them to be a fun agressive fish and caught 4 of them, put them back, so not sure how they taste? Loves the spoons and spinners. They are Brook trout crossed with Char?  |
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Post by Pat on May 11, 2016 23:45:38 GMT -5
I, too, would find it hard to eat something that was smiling and looking at me!
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Post by orrum on May 12, 2016 8:27:22 GMT -5
Brookies are char aren't they? I know they r not trout as such.
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Post by grayfingers on May 12, 2016 9:31:23 GMT -5
Cool, had not heard of this cross! The Arctic Char is the Brook Trout's closest relative.
They spawn in Oct-Nov., trout spawn in the spring. Brookie fishing a small creek is one of the best pleasures in life. And they are yummy.
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Post by wampidytoo on May 12, 2016 9:51:12 GMT -5
@grayvingers Brookie fishing a small creek is one of the best pleasures in life. And they are yummy. I could not agree more. I go to a place where I have to mash down the barb on my fly to give the fish a chance. Way beyond fun. spiritstone I had not seen these before either. Thanks for showing them. Jim |
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Post by bushmanbilly on May 12, 2016 12:55:38 GMT -5
We also have Splake. A cross between a male Brooky and a Lake Trout. I posted this a few years back. Record Sask. rainbow.  |
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Post by orrum on May 12, 2016 13:14:22 GMT -5
Is it pink meat like a brookie?
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Post by spiritstone on May 12, 2016 15:02:52 GMT -5
So... where does a guy go to catch Splake? First time I have ever heard of them.
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Post by Don on May 12, 2016 15:15:43 GMT -5
Tigers are a sterile hybrid of brook and brown trout. I'd imagine that they taste like trout. Pink vs white flesh depends on diet usually, not species.
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Post by spiritstone on May 12, 2016 15:18:53 GMT -5
Tigers are a sterile hybrid of brook and brown trout. I'd imagine that they taste like trout. Pink vs white flesh depends on diet usually, not species. Does this means its brook, brown and char? ahhh I see, just a relative char is. This is what I heard of them. They’re Franken-fish experiments of the mad scientists in the Alberta government’s progressive fish culture branch who combined the eggs and milt of a brown trout and a brook trout to produce a test-tube fish that looks remarkably like, well, a leopard. But unlike leopards and tigers, because they are the genetic combo of two separate species (brookies are a char), their offspring are sexually inert www.edmontonsun.com/2015/12/30/neil-waugh-outdoors-tiger-trout-on-the-athabasca |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 19:23:17 GMT -5
sexually inert
At least until they aren't....
Most government experiments in nature fail.
Think mongoose, Burmese pythons in the Everglades, rainbow trout in California (exterminated Golden's from most of their range), there are hundreds more.
Maybe they will be right this time.
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Post by spiritstone on May 12, 2016 21:25:16 GMT -5
sexually inertAt least until they aren't.... Most government experiments in nature fail. Think mongoose, Burmese pythons in the Everglades, rainbow trout in California (exterminated Golden's from most of their range), there are hundreds more. Maybe they will be right this time. So true, you had me think of a variety of species that wont or dont reproduce in captivity. Since released into nature, from a fish farm, you can never be 100% certain what might stir them up? fluctuation in water temps, seasons? Shouldn't be playing Darwin with the gene pools, Bad circumstances can come of it. Especially if it became an evasive species. Could possibly be why the snake pop was so high? New breed of fish to feed on? Hahaha The frankenfish seemed to like that color black and yellow, maybe the opposite? |
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Post by spiceman on May 12, 2016 21:57:58 GMT -5
Well there again, from Ohio. Not many trout in Ohio unless they are stocked. No rocks...no good size trout. But we do have Lake Erie full of smallmouth and a lake close to me has Muskie. This year someone caught a 50"
That's one thing I can do, is fish. :)
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Post by spiritstone on May 12, 2016 22:08:30 GMT -5
Well there again, from Ohio. Not many trout in Ohio unless they are stocked. No rocks...no good size trout. But we do have Lake Erie full of smallmouth and a lake close to me has Muskie. This year someone caught a 50" That's one thing I can do, is fish.  I'm not against keeping a true fish species in tact and pops up with stocking. It just doesnt taste the same as wild natural fish. We have Jack that look the same as Muskies. In the winter I tend to use 80lb test to pull those monsters in. Caught a few with hotdogs one time Hahaha |
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Post by spiceman on May 12, 2016 22:15:58 GMT -5
I will agree with that, although I am a tournament bass fisherman and I let all my fish go.
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Post by bushmanbilly on May 13, 2016 11:07:58 GMT -5
So... where does a guy go to catch Splake? First time I have ever heard of them. There is a few lakes in Sask. that have them. |
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Post by Fossilman on May 13, 2016 11:17:28 GMT -5
Nice colors on the trout!
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