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#1 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:12 PM
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#2 Guest_star5328_*
Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:30 PM
#3 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:07 PM
#4 Guest_Kanus_*
Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:36 PM
#5 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 25 September 2010 - 08:48 PM
I'm going out again tomorrow. I'll post anything new that I find.
#6 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 26 September 2010 - 12:36 AM
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Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:48 AM
I sure thought it looked like a rainbow, but have never seen that white pelvic fin margin on anything except brook trout. Figured it was a washed out hatchery brookie.
I agree and think it was a hatchery brookie (orange fins with white margin), creek chub based on the mouth size, green sunfish and then bluehead chub.
#8 Guest_panfisherteen_*
Posted 26 September 2010 - 05:03 PM
#9 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 26 September 2010 - 05:27 PM
Have you ever seen the hatchery brookies that North Carolina stocks? Pitiful, washed out creatures, nothing like the wild ones you find in adjacent waters. They are virtually devoid of any vermiculations. But, the fish in question looks more like a rainbow in the photo, but those fins..... Might just be the lighting. And the OP seems to think it is a rainbow, so it may very well be.other than the fins that looks like a lot of the juv. rainbow trout from around here. And the fact that theres no red dots, let alone red dots with blue halos, its silverish instead of a brownish color, the spots are black and not yellow, and theres no worm like markings (light in color) on the top of the fish, really makes it hard to believe its a brook trout (for me). I think its just a juv. rainbow trout that happens to have brook trout-like fins
#10 Guest_panfisherteen_*
Posted 26 September 2010 - 06:40 PM
notice that rainbow has a bit of the white leading edge on the fins, something the fish in question does have as well
#11 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 26 September 2010 - 11:03 PM
#12 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 27 September 2010 - 05:39 AM
So no more vicious trout accusations
#13 Guest_panfisherteen_*
Posted 27 September 2010 - 12:06 PM
#14 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 27 September 2010 - 05:31 PM
#15 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 28 September 2010 - 08:20 PM
#16 Guest_NateTessler13_*
Posted 18 October 2010 - 07:52 PM
The fish smacks of rainbow, dark spots on lighter background, but if the camera is telling the truth, the fins scream brook trout.
I know I shouldn't say anything...but I agree with you 100%, Skipjack. That fish's anal and pelvic fins are classic Brook Trout (or just Char in general). The rest of the body is indicative of a Rainbow Trout. But, the more I look at it, the more it seems like the camera is just playing tricks on us. Rainbow Trout it is.
Edited by NateTessler13, 18 October 2010 - 07:56 PM.
#17 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 19 October 2010 - 05:34 PM
Thanks Nate, as good at fish identification as you have become, makes me feel in good company, or at least not 100% crazy. Interestingly though I have never seen a rainbow with the strong white leading edge on the fins, I do see it fairly often in brown trout.I know I shouldn't say anything...but I agree with you 100%, Skipjack. That fish's anal and pelvic fins are classic Brook Trout (or just Char in general). The rest of the body is indicative of a Rainbow Trout. But, the more I look at it, the more it seems like the camera is just playing tricks on us. Rainbow Trout it is.
#18 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 25 October 2010 - 12:25 PM
#19 Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 25 October 2010 - 02:02 PM
#20 Guest_NCNativeFish_*
Posted 25 October 2010 - 06:55 PM
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