Banner day!!!

[jjsjigs]

Went out yesterday from 7:30am to 1pm. Non-stop action. It's just nuts... I can't believe all the fish I caught. Easily an over 50+ fish landed and missed that many as well. I got a East Coast trout slam. Just about every specie of Freestoner Eastern trout: Brookies, bows, Golden Bows, Tigers, and Browns.












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This last brownie looked eeriely like a West Yellowstone Cutty. It's lacking the red slash on the gillplates... but at first glance it could pass as a cutthroat trout.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

That's what I love about rivers,the variety and never knowing what's going to hit next.

 

[jjsjigs]

Went back yesterday... the same 50ft piece of water. Testing out my new rubber legged woven bodied stonefly and the pink Rat-Tailed Wormie fly.

 

[StumpHunter]

Very nice. Those are some good trout and nice flies you tied. Congrats on your catch

 

[Radtexan]

Nice work...Some beautiful color on those Brooks !!!!

 

[Hawnjigs]

Those tiger are beautiful, hope to see one someday. Are they wild or stocked?

 

[LedHed]

Absolutely an amazing fishery – fantastic catches - congrats

 

[JSC]

Looks like you might have that section of the river all to your self ...

Take advantage of it while you can.

Great Fishin

 

[bombora]

Sorry missed this post. What wild fishing! And I didn't even know there was such a thing as a golden trout or tiger trout! Crazy looking trout!

 

[Shoemoo]

Sound like you couldn't keep them off the hook.

Tiger trout are a cross breed between brown and brook trout. They're sterile, so probably stocked. I've never caught one, but there are several swimming in the aquarium at Cabela's. They're very beautiful.

There are two types of golden trout. The real golden is a sub species of the rainbow and only lives in high mountain rivers and lakes in western North America. The other golden trout is a color phase of the standard rainbow. They are hatchery fish. They call them banana trout out here in Idaho. The fish and game department raises a few for promotional purposes like fishing contests for the kids and stocks the brooders in a few ponds near the hatchery. They don't put an emphasis on stocking them because their survivability is lower than normal phase rainbows. Their color makes them stick out to predators like a sore thumb.

 

[steeliejim902]

Looks like you fished near the fairgrounds in the first pics?

Can't believe that many made it through the summer. Was that right before the big flood?

 

[BucktailJiger]

A good day ! Congrats ! Can't wait to get my fly rod set up and get at it !

 

[bombora]

Thanks Shoe, facinating! We only have rainbows, browns, and some Atlantic salmon released into Snowy mountains lakes. Though there are some brook trout in Tasmania, and whispers of a certain tiny stream about six hours from me. The tigers are stunners, and yep I did wonder how a golden trout could survive, they would stand out like dog's balls as they say here!!!

 

[Shoemoo]

If you think the banana trout are strange, you should see the blue trout they have swimming around at the hatchery. Apparently a rare genetic defect causes a few banana trout to be born blue instead of yellow. They only raise sterile rainbows (to keep them from hybridizing with other native trout species) so it can't breed, but they keep it around as a novelty to show visitors. Here's a story about a similar fish at another hatchery.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/ar...190316/One-fish-two-fish-wanna-see-blue-fish-

 

[steeliejim902]

I've seen 2 of those blue trout in my life. When I was a kid, our co-op nursery that raised fingerlings had one. Most recently, there was one on display at Cabela's in Hamburg, PA that was donated by a local private club.

They're definitely something to see!

 

[bombora]

Shoe read that yarn, how cool! That blue pigmentation looks so saltwater!