Golden Trout?

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Just to clear things up. The bananna trout are not a golden/rainbow hybrid. They are a genetic mutation that pigments the rainbows a yellow color. It happens in the wild, but like I said they get eaten fast in the wild. When it happens in the raceways of the hatcherys the F&G takes them and puts them together by themselves and raises them until they are catchable size. Then they breed those ones together and the mutation is passed on at a greater rate making a catchable population of "banana trout." Sometimes the F & G releases their brood stock into the family fishing waters. From what I understand these are the really big ones that people are catching. Most of the banana trout do not reach huge sizes because they are caught out of the family fishing waters or killed off by osprey/eagles.

Disclaimer: Non of this is scientific just what I have heard and seen.

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