Genetic diversity?

[JobyKSU]

Hi all,

I caught this little guy the other day just at dusk.

I was fishing the lower end of the C&R area, and he grabbed the nymph and dove.

I'm a bit of a newbie to this, but this guy sure doesn't look like a pure rainbow. Are they stocking cutbows, or is this just a differently colored strain?

[brownieman]

If it's in Mo. unless the fish made it through hundreds of miles of impounded waters( which is not feasable with summer water temps ) it has to be a rainbow, brown or a mistakenly placed crane creek hybrid.

To my knowledge that's all the MDC raises unless they have a new 'Top Secret' trout...if i'm mistaken someone fill me in.

Trout often vary in color depending on different variables.

[brownieman]

...just noticed you're talking beaver...duh...thought it was taney, lol...sorry

guess i'll use the heat as an excuse !!

[retroaction man]

i wondered the same thing when i caught this one last winter

also nice to see people posting in this section of the forum cheers

[timsfly]

In missouri you will find a lot of rainbows with cutthroat charcteristics, because they breed rainbows and cutts togeather quite often. I was told once they do it to make them grow faster, kind of like black angus crossed with herfords, makes them bigger faster.

I was told by a conservation worker once that several kinds of rainbows and cutts are used for breeding

[JobyKSU]

In missouri you will find a lot of rainbows with cutthroat charcteristics, because they breed rainbows and cutts togeather quite often. I was told once they do it to make them grow faster, kind of like black angus crossed with herfords, makes them bigger faster.

I was told by a conservation worker once that several kinds of rainbows and cutts are used for breeding

Ah, makes sense. Wonder what the chances are that Arkansas has some of that stock?

The markings and rusty-orange color really screamed cut to me.

And you know what they say... If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then I'll hook it.

Ok, just the once, and my brother-in-law is probably the only one that will say it, but you get the picture.

...just noticed you're talking beaver...duh...thought it was taney, lol...sorry

guess i'll use the heat as an excuse !!

I was wondering about that. Of course, I was not going to say anything. "Respect your elders" and all that.

[jenkznza]

I've caught several with the same characteristics at Roundhouse Shoals on the White River. I put a call into the fishing regs department the other day concerning how to handle these and they still haven't come up with an answer for me yet.

[ecce38]

I caught this guy (a brookie) in that same part of the C&R area almost 2 years ago and ain't seen one like it since. It's all bows and browns in BTW.

[Buzz]

I've caught fish from Crane and Capps and Hickory with very different colors, but the fish I caught at Hickory Creek in Neosho have the most orange/rusty colors. I'm not able to post the pics now for some reason. I've had contrasting info on which hatchery stocked Hickory last fall,( Shepard Of The Hills or Neosho), but if you look back on the Hickory post you will find the pic that I posted on the 19 inch Rainbow. I did notice a very different look of the 16.5 inch male Crane Rainbow (look back to Crane Creek on Jan. 20, 2008) he did have a good orange color to the gill plate though with a lot moe spots. I'm not sure of the breeding, but I'm sure that they use genetic mixing.

Buzz

[Gavin]

Missouri park fish have some cutthroat genetics in them, and that orange slash is very common....Wouldnt be surprised if other hatchey strains have a mix of cutt to since bows and cutts interbreed very easilly. Cheers.