Golden Trout

[Gavin]

Judas Trout, or Heron Food would be my pick.

[fozzie.]

Pretty fish, and it'd be neat to get a photo with one. But for my money, I bet this thing fights harder:

[Buzz]

Palomino trout is more correct.

http://images.google.com/images?q=palomino%20Trout&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://images.google.com/images?q=golden%20trout&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Those fish are definitley Golden Rainbow Trout, not palominos. I have an 8 pound male hanging on my wall that was verified by an MDC biologist.

I have a picture of it on my profile page.

[Kayser]

It's like naming a dog- you may call him "Wolf," but it's just a husky, or a lab, or whatever type of dog you may have. Yes, they are similar, and come from the same background, but one is wild and naturally occurring, and the other has had its genetics manipulated by humans to get desirable traits expressed.

Same thing here, they just so happened to choose a name for their science project that was already given to another species that was naturally occurring.

Rob

[Buzz]

From what I've found out about the Golden Rainbow trout, it is a true rainbow but with a naturally occurring mutant gene. It was first found in a hatchery on the east coast back in the 40's or 50's ( I'd have to dig up my references to be sure) and has since been grown as it is. There is a hatchery caled Crystal Rivers over near Ava, MO that grows them still. They are funky looking and a pretty easy meal for a predator, but to my knowledge they weren't created in a lab. Now, what they've done since is a different story.

Edit: here is a link to some info http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/pages/qa/fish/trout_golden.htm

[gotmuddy]

Pretty fish, and it'd be neat to get a photo with one. But for my money, I bet this thing fights harder:

I bet a trout of the same size would fight equally well or better

[Quillback]

That looks like a Koi, those things can go for big bucks, it looks like the one of the ones shown in this (middle, top row) link, it's $200.00 for a 12 inch one. A bigun like that, who knows? The tough part would be keeping it alive and getting it to a buyer. http://www.thekoifarm.com/koiForSale.php