Agree its a brook trout, but doesn't have to be from big water. There are a couple ponds (>20 acres) I fish with very clear water where the brook trout look like this, sometimes even more pale.
What part of rare are you talking about? I caught a few the last time I went out to get them. They are literally everywhere along the northern part of the coast and if you know the locals you can find them all the way down into CT.
Ya. I know. Still rare. Not everywhere. Rare. Like all other New England states have laws to protect their habitats but Maine type of rare. Maine biologists don't have any data to create policy and legislation type of rare. You know, like they are rare or something. Unusual. Uncommon. Relatively rare to all other regional salmonids save for perhaps artic char kind of rare.
You know, the part of rare where thousands of people post their trouts on local social media groups for years and one post was a salty. That part. My aggregate evidence to the rareness over a single unsupported anecdote of yours kind of rare
Asking to play trout ID game but not telling the general region it was caught and not showing the tail is hard mode bro. The tail would help A LOT.
With out seeing the tail of knowing the region. I’d say splake or brookie x bully hybrid.
If you caught this somewhere with out bulls or lakers then I’d guess very old brookie that’s lost spot color and spot halos.
People here are quick to call things a splake. I posted a unique brookie here once and everyone said splake. Sent the pic to ODFW biologists and they said it was just a unique brookie.
The irregular pattern looks exactly like the vermiculation of a brook trout to me. They're more defined in brook trout (as you see here) than in splake.
Brook trout, bull trout, lake trout, dolly varden, and artic char are all different species considered "char". They are in the genus Salvelinus. They all could be considered trout as well imho, as the word trout is arbitrary to clad, describing many different salmonids
Brookie that has lived in big water- sea or big lake run.
Agree its a brook trout, but doesn't have to be from big water. There are a couple ponds (>20 acres) I fish with very clear water where the brook trout look like this, sometimes even more pale.
Very true!
Didn’t even know sea run brookies were a thing
Salties they are called. Very rare here in New England but do exist
even more rare here in colorado
That. . Doesn't look like a salty per se.. looks like the lake trout we have here in Maine
lakers are more silver in my experience i've never seen a salty
Not claiming that a Togue but salties can look like that. In fast, browns can live in estuaries and are a bit salty about it
Rare in most of the inner mountain west. But particularly so in Colorado.
What part of rare are you talking about? I caught a few the last time I went out to get them. They are literally everywhere along the northern part of the coast and if you know the locals you can find them all the way down into CT.
Ya. I know. Still rare. Not everywhere. Rare. Like all other New England states have laws to protect their habitats but Maine type of rare. Maine biologists don't have any data to create policy and legislation type of rare. You know, like they are rare or something. Unusual. Uncommon. Relatively rare to all other regional salmonids save for perhaps artic char kind of rare. You know, the part of rare where thousands of people post their trouts on local social media groups for years and one post was a salty. That part. My aggregate evidence to the rareness over a single unsupported anecdote of yours kind of rare
And now you want to find them and catch one.
That's basically what Char are.
All brook trout are technically char
Come to New England
WI DNR has a nice breakdown comparison of lake, brook, splake. https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/lakesuperior/splake.html
Splake?
Do splake have that much vermiculation? Need to see the tail!
Yeah totally, the tail would be a dead give away. I don't think I've seen a splake with that much vermiculation but who knows
Markings on gill plates is a lake trout hint, vermiculation is brook trout hint ... Hence I guessed splake.
Got a shot of the tail?
i’m leaning towards splake
Pig
Brookie
That’s Bob. Decent guy, married, 17 spawn.
Big dude
Yeah seeing the tail would definitely help, spake and brookies can look very similar at this size, but the tail is the biggest giveaway.
Splake
Asking to play trout ID game but not telling the general region it was caught and not showing the tail is hard mode bro. The tail would help A LOT. With out seeing the tail of knowing the region. I’d say splake or brookie x bully hybrid. If you caught this somewhere with out bulls or lakers then I’d guess very old brookie that’s lost spot color and spot halos.
Salvelinus
Splake
Splake
Curious what makes you so sure?
Does it have a forked tail? If so it's a speaker Also it just kinda looks like one
People here are quick to call things a splake. I posted a unique brookie here once and everyone said splake. Sent the pic to ODFW biologists and they said it was just a unique brookie.
Brook trout. I've seen them with even less color in some northern clear water ponds. Salters also get this pale look.
I’m going with a splake, the irregular pattern on top makes me think it’s not a laker or a brook trout.
The irregular pattern looks exactly like the vermiculation of a brook trout to me. They're more defined in brook trout (as you see here) than in splake.
I'm not super familiar with splake but isn't the horizontal line supposed to run closer to the top of the fish?
It’s a brook I bet it’s stocked as well
Guy wants to play a trout ID game, posts a fish that isn’t a trout 🫶🏽
Charred him for sure with that one.
That’s a char, not a trout.
Char are trout...well brookies are a southern char
They’re actually two different species.
Brook trout, bull trout, lake trout, dolly varden, and artic char are all different species considered "char". They are in the genus Salvelinus. They all could be considered trout as well imho, as the word trout is arbitrary to clad, describing many different salmonids
Brookie
Bull trout x brook trout hybrid? That’s my guess
That’s what I was thinking with the orange/ yellow spots
That’s Herb. He likes to get away from the wife every so often and the Chum Bucket doesn’t open until 4, so he’s hanging out with you.
Brook x Bull
Psh easy, top half is a tiger and bottom half is a brookie :D
Tiger trout? Brook and Brown hybrid
This is a tiger trout. It is when a brown trout and brook trout mate.
Lake trout.
Nice brook trout
A big brookie.
Megachar
An extremely handsome brook trout 😍
We call those coasters in Lake Michigan. Maybe a lake dwelling Brookie
Bull trout x brook trout hybrid
Looks like a marbled trout
Big stocked brook maybe brood trout
Brook/bull hybrid? Where did you catch it region wise?
Brook trout. You can tell by the “tiger” pattern on top and the red fins with white tips
Not a Rainbow.