First off I am new to the website, just wanted to say that I am thrilled I found a place where I can read and discuss fishing.
I was out on the Provo river a while back near Vivian park fly fishing and I hooked a fish variety I had never seen. To me it looked similar to a lake trout. There are lots of experts on here and I’d like to hear what some of you guys think it is.
Looks like a Brook trout
I was thinking brook trout too…but usually a small brook would have the white tips on the fins & the colors would be MUCH more vibrant than the fish in the pic? Maybe it’s a brown? Or it’s just an unhealthy brook trout?!
looks like a brookie, but i could be wrong, i just took up fishing myself 2 days ago
Looks like a Splake. Don’t know where it would’ve come from. A hatchery obviously, but how?
I’d say it’s a splake or laker. Tail looks too forked to be a brookie. Brown trout? Way off on that one. Browns have dark spots on a light background. Chars (brook, lake, splake) have light spots on a dark background.
looks like a brookie, but i could be wrong, i just took up fishing myself 2 days ago
HAHA! You’re posts crack me up.
I’m pretty sure its a laker. It probably skinny from doing its flight from Fish Lake, up the sevier river, thru Utah Lake and up the provo.
I’d say it’s a splake or laker. Tail looks too forked to be a brookie. Brown trout? Way off on that one. Browns have dark spots on a light background. Chars (brook, lake, splake) have light spots on a dark background.
I was just saying if it WERE a brook or brown, that is didn’t look healthy (to me…just an opinion here). I’ve seen browns with lighter coloring. It was just a guess.
I say splake
It’s a splake.
spots are round. lake trout don’t have round spots.
tail is forked. brook trout don’t have forked tails.
splake.
probably got mixed in with the other fish being stocked in the Provo. It happens. They’re sterile. Carry on.
Stocking reports don’t show ANY fish planted in that section of the Provo for years.
Stocking reports don’t show ANY fish planted in that section of the Provo for years.
Fish are stocked in Deer Creek. Wouldn’t it be possible for it to have come downstream?
**I heerd tell of some splake being stocked in Deer Creek. And there have been others caught along the Provo and even out of Utah Lake. Really messes with folks that know everthing about everthing.
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Just about anything is possible.
Splake without a doubt.
Crazy that it was caught on the Provo! A very unique catch.
It makes me think twice about the “legends of Deer Creek” that I’ve been hearing for years. Lakers, kokanee, giant catfish, divers getting scared out of the water…
evil laugh
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
splake
small mouthed flannel pike musky
I got one that looked pretty similar in BCC about 200 yrds from the Jordan river a year or so ago, my first thought was a brook.
heres the pic
jazzperch – the size of the picture is small, so it is really hard to say based on it.
I can’t tell for sure if the tail has a moderate fork or not – brook trout don’t. Their tails are square. Also, the shape of the fish suggests splake to me. But, again, it’s really hard to determine based off that picture alone. It may just be a skinny brook trout.