Hybrid Trout???

[518BowSlayer]

Caught this guy last May in Dead Lake in Washington County along with 4 brookies. Assumed it was a hybrid maybe mixed with a rainbow or something. Anyone else catch something like this before??? P.S. Ignore the date on the pic

[kroot23]

Tiger trout. Hybrid brown/brook trout.

[ants]

Never seen one like that, but that would make a great camo pattern.

[BizCT]

I caught a tiger trout in ct once. Didn't know what it was till I did research

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[Terry]

Very cool! I have always wanted to catch one myself, they are pretty rare.

[Pygmy]

Looks like a tiger trout to me. I have seen a couple that were caught in tribs of the Cohocton River.

As kroot posted previously, it is brown/brook trout hybrid.

I have read that Mill Creek in NW Steuben County near Wayland has some also, but I have never caught one there.

[Doc]

So these are sterile hybrids that are kind of a put and take variety .... right? I wonder why they are messing around with those rather than stocking fish that have some potential for self-regeneration? I would think that would make more sense.

[Terry]

They can occur naturally too. I believe the state stocked these at one time, but hasn't in years.

[growalot]

NYODN has a big article on stocked Brown's adversely effecting wild Brook trout........A US Study

 

(stupid kindle!)

Edited January 26, 2014 by growalot

[BizCT]

Here's a tiger trout that I caught in 2010 in CT.

[UpstateNomad90]

Dead lake can be a tricky little place to fish, Nice fish out of there though, Congrats!

[Pygmy]

 

So these are sterile hybrids that are kind of a put and take variety .... right? I wonder why they are messing around with those rather than stocking fish that have some potential for self-regeneration? I would think that would make more sense.

The state does not want to weaken the genetics of wild trout by stocking genetically inferior hatchery trout. That is why they do NOT stock trout in waters that have good natural reproduction of wild trout. Stocked trout are stocked to be CAUGHT, just as game farm pheasants are stocked to be SHOT.

I don't recall any stocking of tiger trout...For awhile the state was stocking splake, which are a lake trout/brookie hybrid in selected waters. I don't know if they still stocking splake or not..

The tiger trout that I am referring to came out of waters which are NOT stocked..Mill Creek is a totally wild fishery of brook and brown trout...

The tribs of the Cohocton that I fish are not stocked, although there are no doubt holdover trout that were stocked in the main river that ascend and live in the tribs. There is also significant spawning of wild trout, both browns and brookies, in the tribs. The tiger trout here are the result of cross spawning of the two species.

Edited January 28, 2014 by Pygmy

[518BowSlayer]

In person it had more of a pinkish/purplish hue, that's why I thought it might be mixed with a rainbow

[crappyice]

I caught a tiger trout out of the west branch of the Delaware up nea roscoe a few years back...wish I could find the pic...sweet looking fish