06-15-2019, 04:13 AM
If you really want to blow your mind, take a look at this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Trout-World-reiss...363&sr=8-1
It includes descriptions and paintings of many of the brown trout subspecies in Europe. Included are fish that are called "marmorated", and look like tiger trout (but are decidely not and are a fertile viable subspecies), Zebree patterns which are a sort of barring or striping, and even a finespotted variety that looks most like a Snake River finespotted cutthroat trout, but is not. It comes from Norway. These and many more are all in the species called brown trout. (Salmo trutta) Pretty cool stuff.
While it is true that the German and Scottish stocks had different spotting tendencies, there has been so much interbreeding since that I am skeptical that we could catch any brown nowadays in our fisheries that is very pure. That said, there is incredible spotting variety in the fish we catch. Below are a series of 3 brown trout I caught in short succession a couple years ago. They all came from the same run so local habitat was not different. The first has only a couple of red spots and very few brown ones. The second is the "typical" pattern, and the third shows very small faint red spots, which are numerous and rather pale small brown ones.
These all come from the same genetics but show the impressive variety that is possible.
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https://www.amazon.com/Trout-World-reiss...363&sr=8-1
It includes descriptions and paintings of many of the brown trout subspecies in Europe. Included are fish that are called "marmorated", and look like tiger trout (but are decidely not and are a fertile viable subspecies), Zebree patterns which are a sort of barring or striping, and even a finespotted variety that looks most like a Snake River finespotted cutthroat trout, but is not. It comes from Norway. These and many more are all in the species called brown trout. (Salmo trutta) Pretty cool stuff.
While it is true that the German and Scottish stocks had different spotting tendencies, there has been so much interbreeding since that I am skeptical that we could catch any brown nowadays in our fisheries that is very pure. That said, there is incredible spotting variety in the fish we catch. Below are a series of 3 brown trout I caught in short succession a couple years ago. They all came from the same run so local habitat was not different. The first has only a couple of red spots and very few brown ones. The second is the "typical" pattern, and the third shows very small faint red spots, which are numerous and rather pale small brown ones.
These all come from the same genetics but show the impressive variety that is possible.
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