Fish Id?

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sn...9_4553966_n.jpg

 

I got it up in banff at the confluince of 2 creeks. I got brook and cutts up one creek and at the confluence i got bows brook and cuts but i dont knwo what this is. It doesnt have to red jaw like a cutbow or a cut, i checked.

[Wanny]

Check out the thread call "Bows breeding with Bulls" or something like that.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redband_trout

[maxwell]

looks like a juvenile bow dude!

[Wolfie]

well, well.....a redband trout...Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp......beautiful markings..........Wolfie

[admin]

Looks like a rainbow. The spots are a bit dark, but not that unusual for the smaller wild guys.

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

all the otheres had tiny or almost no spots so it did look very different from all the other fish i got.

[maxwell]

those large greeny spots are "parr" markings.. sommon with baby trout and salmon!

[Wolfie]

those large greeny spots are "parr" markings.. sommon with baby trout and salmon!

 

say Max..have a look at this please............................Wolfie

 

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[Harps]

rainbows... redbands... same thing.

O. mykiss in Alberta are so mixed you can't tell them apart unless you find a very isolated population.

And you can't tell by colour... just like most species, there are variations within (and within subspecies). Also trout can change colour... they have pigment cells that adapt to background colours (shade vs open, red gravel vs blue rock).

The parr marks will stay on a fish depending on how fast it matures, genetic variations, and other environmental conditions. There are species/subspecies that keep parr marks, but typically rainbows will lose them after a year or 2.

 

420, you're catching trout... westslope cutthroats mixed with rainbows from who knows where.

Even distributed black spots, white tipped fins, no slash...

The trout in that picture is a rainbow trout.

[BBBrownie]

Part of the beauty of fishing is the individual variations between fish and not knowing exactly what you will get. Even ignoring Alberta's cluster fak of hatchery transplants of various origins, the variety of expressions found within isolated pure strains can be amazing.

[Keith]

It's a really interesting looking fish that's for sure. Wolfie, that's a cool illustration you found to match.

[Hawgstoppah]

Young rainbow all the way. There a dime a dozen like that in the crow right now (the 6-10 inchers)

[Wolfie]

It's a really interesting looking fish that's for sure. Wolfie, that's a cool illustration you found to match.

 

thanks.....don't tell anyone but i snagged the pic at the bottom, did my graphic thing , then put them both together..all of 10 minutes...and I don't use photoshop. .pfffffffft!.........Wolfie

[Guest 420FLYFISHIN]

i had to ask because the othere were all silver only 2 or 3 had the spots.

[LastBoyScout]

It looks very much like the trout I used to catch in the upper Mcleod, Greg and Embrass Rivers. I always thought they were the Macleod River strain of Rainbows. They seem to keep the parr marks longer that the interlopers, the more silvery bows that seem more prevalent in the lower Mcleod, Wild Hay and Muskeg or further South towards Nordegg. I'm certainly no expert just my two cents.