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Identify This Fish - unicornslayer - 02-27-2013
I caught this fish on a small stream with a variety of trout species in it. One of the craziest looking trout I've ever caught. On close inspection there was a few distinguishing features that tell what it is, but based on this picture whats your guess?
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - SatanLBZ801 - 02-27-2013
Rainbow
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Re: [SatanLBZ801] Identify This Fish - kochanut - 02-27-2013
[quote SatanLBZ801]Rainbow[/quote]
ditto
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - sinergy - 02-27-2013
Hammer Head Shark [
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - riverdog - 02-27-2013
Oncorhynchus mykiss- yes that's rainbow. Just still has some parr marks that haven't totally faded. Under your hand most likely a faint iridescent stripe is starting or will shortly if it was released.
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - unicornslayer - 02-28-2013
Rainbow was what I thought too, ended up being a cuttbow. A lot of hybridization happens in this stream and some end up with some wild spotting patterns like this guy!
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - Flyfishinglover - 03-01-2013
I'm sure it's a cuttyrainbrown. I catch quite a bit of those guys in little cottonwood creek.
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Re: [Flyfishinglover] Identify This Fish - refugeOntheFly - 03-01-2013
he probably caught it on a PMD, a purple mountain damsel majesty fly.
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Re: [refugeOntheFly] Identify This Fish - Flyfishinglover - 03-01-2013
No No No you got it wrong. He caught it on a RFP, Random Fly Pattern, as well that's what I use to catch my cuttyrainbrown.
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Re: [Flyfishinglover] Identify This Fish - TyeDyeTwins - 03-01-2013
You sure it was not a midge-najatwa? Or a Midge-orgy?
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Re: [TyeDyeTwins] Identify This Fish - Flyfishinglover - 03-01-2013
Maybe even the tdt hair + ffl elk hair caddis combo
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Re: [Flyfishinglover] Identify This Fish - refugeOntheFly - 03-01-2013
no... hopper with the hopper dropper and dropper hopper. Thats three hoppers and I have caught fish on all three of them before
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Re: [refugeOntheFly] Identify This Fish - Flyfishinglover - 03-01-2013
Are you sure you didn't use chest nuts so the fish would puker it's lips and kiss it or a candy cane midge that represent a candy cane?
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Re: [unicornslayer] Identify This Fish - riverdog - 03-02-2013
I'm waiting for the DNA[laugh]. An orangish or red slash isn't a reliable identify feature in differentiating a rainbow from cutt or cuttbow. I'm assuming it had one not shown.
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