Hmm..they should try brook + rainbow trout, or brook + cutthroats, or brown and cutthroats…those might be interesting fish. Anyone know if they have tried those combinations befor?
Brainbows and Butthroats? I just don’t see them trying those out…
[sly]Butthroat!!! LOL I think someone should try it just for the opportunity to use that name!
I have caught a fish just a few days ago on the bear river side of the uintahs that I’m unsure about. It was gray with pale yellow spots that were about as big around as a pen cap. There were about ten spots on each side of the fish but the rest of it was dull gray color. The fins looked like brook trout fins but were absent of any color except the white stripe on the edge. Looked like some sort of brook hybrid but I’ve caught tons and tons of trout and I’ve never seen one that looked like that. One person suggested that it was a cutt, but it was missing the orange slash under the jaw… I’m just curious… does anyone else know anything about what it might have been? It was certainly a trout, I just was wondering what kind it was.
Rat – it’s pretty easy to tell the difference between a brook and a cutt. Brook trout have a dark colored background with light colored spots. Trout (rainbows, browns, cutts) are just opposite. Dark spots on a light background.
Telling a rainbow from a cutt can be more difficult. Don’t just look for slashes under the jaw. Rainbows can get these markings also. Look at spotting pattersn. Typically, cutts have more spots towards the tail end of the fish, and they get sparser moving towards the head. Rainbows are typically pretty uniform with spots all across the body.
The only real way to identify your fish is to know where it came from. What fish are in the drainage? Without pictures, this might be tough to decide what it was. It most likely was not a hybrid cross with a brook trout. This just doesn’t happen in the wild. If the spots were a ligth color on a dark background, it was a brook trout. Did the spots have blue halos? these are typical of brook trout. From your description (yellow spots) I would say it was nothing more than a brook trout. But, without a picture, we can’t really say for sure…
I suppose butthroats would hit flies pretty good?
I can see it now. “Baetis & butthroat”
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.[:)]
that is definitely a brookie. i think we have two different kinds of brook trout planted throughout the state. the pale grey with yellow spots is a eastern brookie. i have caught quite a few in the same drainage.