ID this Trout?

[trythisonemv]

Marked like a tiger troUt. Brook trout \brown trout hybrid. But like before mentioned the genetics of hatchery trout are far from normal. Probably justa weird rainbow. 

[swilson]

It was the 'tiger' or reticulated spots/stripes that had me wondering. Could not find a pic of any rainbow or other trout with that marking. "FrankenTrout", I suppose!

[moguy1973]

Definitely a cutty rain brown.

Did you catch that on a hopper with a hopper dropper with a dropper hopper by chance?

 

[trythisonemv]

Hank pattersons videos are freaking hilarious. . . Seriously though look up tiger trout. Careful they claw and bite

[2sheds]

Are you sure this isn't a Carp or perhaps some sort of Smelt ?

i think, as a group, that we are much too fixuated onto TROUT.  I mean, what is the deal ?

[fishinwrench]

50 minutes ago, 2sheds said:

i think, as a group, that we are much too fixuated onto TROUT.  I mean, what is the deal ?

It isn't necessarily the trout (although they are pretty and fun to catch) that fixates you. It's the beautiful places where they live.   Cool clear moving water, and the topography that brings that all together.  

[ness]

I've fished Roaring River at least once a year for 15 or so years and have never seen one marked like that there, or anywhere else. 

[swilson]

Ness, I try to fish there every year as well. My folks started taking me there in the early sixties. 

The markings on this fish were like none I had ever seen - some things reminded me of rainbow, even cutthroat (gill plate and body color), but those connected spots looked like a 'reverse brookie'?!

Thought maybe someone could explain such a unique hybrid pattern. Unintended consequences of hatchery breeding?

 

[fshndoug]

you have to admire Gods handiwork!

[The Bassman]

I've just spent the last two hours binge watching Hank Patterson