# what kind of fish is this **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [June 2, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784 "2008-06-02T23:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bwhitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@bwhitty](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bwhitty)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/1 "2008-06-02T23:53:02Z")
a friend caught 3 of these up to strawberrry and we are just wondering what it is. looks like a rainbow after being abducted by aliens šŸ˜². at first thought it was a tiger trout but spots instead of stripes. anybody know? ---
**Author:** ![fsh4fun05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@fsh4fun05](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fsh4fun05)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/2 "2008-06-02T23:57:28Z")
Looks like a young rainbow, a.k.a. cutthroat slimer snacks. ---
**Author:** ![bwhitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@bwhitty](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bwhitty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/3 "2008-06-03T00:04:28Z")
Iā€™ve never seen them with the big spots. do you know if that is unusual? ---
**Author:** ![bottomwatcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@bottomwatcher](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bottomwatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/4 "2008-06-03T00:20:27Z")
yep, Itā€™s a baby rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/5 "2008-06-03T00:25:16Z")
\*\*šŸ•¶Those are some of the new baby rainbows that are being planted in larger sizesā€¦to help escape MOST of the cutthroats. \*\* * * * **Depends upon the strain of rainbow and which hatchery they came from as to whether or not they have pronounced ā€œparrā€ markings.** ---
**Author:** ![fsh4fun05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@fsh4fun05](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fsh4fun05)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/6 "2008-06-03T00:26:02Z")
I caught a big cutt last fall that burped one up just like that. [inline slimersnack.jpg] ---
**Author:** ![bwhitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@bwhitty](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bwhitty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/7 "2008-06-03T03:53:51Z")
ok thanks for the info figured it was a rainbow but Iā€™ve just never seen one that looked like that. [unimpressed] ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/8 "2008-06-03T11:53:41Z")
šŸ•¶ **Many members of the salmonid family have those marks while young. Probably some kind of camoflage coloring scheme. It seems to be different patterns and darker shadings in some species and on some waters. At any rate, those mostly disappear as the fish grow larger.** ---
**Author:** ![GEEZER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@GEEZER](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/GEEZER)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/9 "2008-06-04T01:39:31Z")
When I was just a kid growing up in eastern Nev. almost all the little trout we caught from the more remote streams were marked like that. We always referred to them as ā€œnativesā€ figuring that they were spawned there in that particular stream. Seems to me that the small cutts had the same kind of markings too. We kinda held the fish without the parr marks as somewhat inferior & called them ā€œplantersā€. Whatā€™s this trivia worth? I dunno, just thought Iā€™d share it. ---
**Author:** ![bwhitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@bwhitty](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bwhitty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/what-kind-of-fish-is-this/134784/10 "2008-06-04T15:13:17Z")
thanks guys for the responses kinda nice to have somewhere to ask strange questions and get some good info. šŸ™‚