Golden Or Palomino

[Hotdawg Guide Service]

These two fish that people are calling "GOLDENS" were caught by customers recently on the White River, you decide GOD Bless Hotdawg!!

[jdmidwest]

It is a genetic mutation caused by a lack of a certain pigment in the skin, I think melanistic is the term. It was explained to me by a biologist as we floated the Norfork stocking Brown Trout one time. Several of the stockers were almost white. If they are totally white it is albanism or albino. It is not the Golden Trout breed from out west.

[John Berry]

These are a strain of hybrid trout stocked by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission last year when they needed some extra trout because of a short fall in production at the state hatchery due to the flood on the the Spring River. They were obtained from a commercial hatchery in Missouri.

[jdixon]

So is the stocking of these trout just a one time thing?

[ness]

The white trout was considered sacred by many Native American tribes. If a white trout was caught on the first moon after the Fall equinox, it was said to bring good fortune to the tribe, and many beautiful wives bearing wise and strong braves, to the dude that caught it. Congratulations.

[jdmidwest]

The white trout was considered sacred by many Native American tribes. If a white trout was caught on the first moon after the Fall equinox, it was said to bring good fortune to the tribe, and many beautiful wives bearing wise and strong braves, to the dude that caught it. Congratulations.

Unfortunately, the natives probably gigged them......

[Predator1]

GOLD FISH...OVERSIZED GOLD FISH.....Someone's COY POND MUST HAVE OVERFLOODED

Looks like something from a Cloning or Stem Cell research laboratory.

[Buzz]

Golden Rainbow trout.

[Ham]

I call them Creamsicles.

[Predator1]

Has anyone tried them in some oil with butter and lemon?