New World Record Rainbow Trout

**Pow4Brains** · 06-16-2007, 01:06 PM

Cubby?

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/f...ory?id=2901070

**dk_alaskan** · 06-16-2007, 03:24 PM

that thing JUST doesn't look right. I hope it turns out legit for their sakes.

**dn4989** · 06-16-2007, 03:26 PM

Thats a big fish.

**AsheanMT** · 06-16-2007, 03:29 PM

Barely even looks like a rainbow. I would have expected it to be longer and more similar to a salmon.

**dk_alaskan** · 06-16-2007, 03:30 PM

it looks to be a wild stock fish (adipose still attached), however, it looks like some sort of odd hybrid or mutant fish.

**danimal's dead** · 06-16-2007, 04:34 PM

Looks like they stuffed a football down his throat.

**detroit** · 06-16-2007, 04:41 PM

I'm calling bullshit.

What are the odds that identical twins would catch identical record-setting trout?

**AsheanMT** · 06-16-2007, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by detroit

I'm calling bullshit.

What are the odds that identical twins would catch identical record-setting trout?

I think its possible considering the size of the fish in the lake that they keep fishing.

**fez** · 06-16-2007, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by dk_alaskan

that thing JUST doesn't look right. I hope it turns out legit for their sakes.

at the trout hatchery in spearfish sd, they keep some old pigs around. i dont remember seeing anything that big, but the big ones get pretty damn fat and pretty much look like that.

edit: im not saying i think thats a hatchery trout, just that i have seen similar sized bows that look about like that.

**dk_alaskan** · 06-16-2007, 06:39 PM

i agree, but if you look just in front of the tail, the adipose is still attached, the most common way of marking a hatchery fish. It could STILL be a hatchery fish, it doesn't look right though in the demensions. However, in salmon, when they get to a certain length, they start to grow MUCH more in the girth, rather than length. We will know the answer IF they submit the fish

**mnflyfish** · 06-18-2007, 08:43 AM

Could it be some sort of growth? That fish looks very different than any large bow I've seen.

Jay

**dk_alaskan** · 06-18-2007, 09:42 AM

thats what i was wondering. It doesn't look right at all, like i said earlier, could it be some mutant hybrid?

**Grizz** · 06-18-2007, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by dk_alaskan

mutant hybrid?

Triploid? Looks like it was raised in a pen.

**dk_alaskan** · 06-18-2007, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Grizz

Triploid? Looks like it was raised in a pen.

If it is, it may have escaped before they could clip the fin

**mntlion** · 06-18-2007, 06:43 PM

**72Twenty** · 06-18-2007, 10:09 PM

Was that caught in a tank at the Cabela's store?

**ak_powder_monkey** · 06-20-2007, 01:10 AM

Triploid = not a rainbow trout which is why the IGFA is a joke

This is a rainbow trout, 100% Native and Wild

**dk_alaskan** · 06-20-2007, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

Triploid = not a rainbow trout which is why the IGFA is a joke

This is a rainbow trout, 100% Native and Wild

where did you pull that one out of?

**ak_powder_monkey** · 06-23-2007, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by dk_alaskan

where did you pull that one out of?

The russian

**uncle crud** · 06-23-2007, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

Triploid = not a rainbow trout which is why the IGFA is a joke

This is a rainbow trout, 100% Native and Wild

Amen!

Someone needs to clue in the hardware-slingers. Steelhead and triploid hybrid are not rainbow trout.

Trophy fishermen are such eedjits. They pretend that the biggest fish means "best fisherman." I'd love to take some of those goons fly fishing on the Le Tort Spring Creek in Pennsylvania, watch them catch NADA for years on end.

**Grizz** · 06-23-2007, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by uncle crud

Someone needs to clue in the hardware-slingers. Steelhead and triploid hybrid are not rainbow trout.

As a mostly fly guy I'm confused also. What are they?

All three are Oncorhynchus mykiss. Definitely not hybrids.

The more I look at the original photo I'm calling BS on that thing weighing 40+ pounds. Maybe if the guy holding it was 6'10".

**uncle crud** · 06-23-2007, 02:38 PM

I don't know what they are, but they're not within normal size range, are they?

From my perspective, once a rainbow trout heads to saline waters, it is not proper to consider it the same fish it was when living strictly within freshwater systems. Unless I'm grossly mistaken (which happens pretty often) I think that this is the reason why they're called "steelhead" after they make their ocean run.

I don't call steelhead fishing the same thing as I call trout fishing. It's a different game, and an entirely different kind of fish.

Maybe the "world record" photographed fish is a morphed image?

**Grizz** · 06-23-2007, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by uncle crud

I don't know what they are, but they're not within normal size range, are they?

Normal depends on the system you're talking about. The rainbows in the Le Tort are going to be much smaller on average than their Alaskan or Kamchatka cousins, which while pushing 20lbs, are still considered resident freshwater rainbows.

From my perspective, once a rainbow trout heads to saline waters, it is not proper to consider it the same fish it was when living strictly within freshwater systems. Unless I'm grossly mistaken (which happens pretty often) I think that this is the reason why they're called "steelhead" after they make their ocean run.

Rainbows are steelhead that have decided not to travel to the ocean (residualized) or have been geographically cut off from ocean access. Very similar to Sockeye and Kokanee. From a genetic standpoint they are the same fish.

I don't call steelhead fishing the same thing as I call trout fishing. It's a different game, and an entirely different kind of fish.

One of my favorite rivers has a great run of summer steelhead along with large numbers of resident rainbows. In October you never know what's going to take off with you size 16 flashback pheasant tail.

They are very similar both genetically and with their feeding habits. One just happens to spend part of it's life cycle in saltwater. Granted there are times when I will use specialized tactics for steelhead but you can frequently hook them (on purpose and accidentally) using trout tactics.

**Pow4Brains** · 06-24-2007, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by Grizz

specialized tactics for steelhead but you can frequently hook them (on purpose and accidentally) using trout tactics.

Sure can. You see more and more folks nymphing for steelies these days. Nothin' better than having your rod ripped out of your hand from a swung fly though. And yeah, once a rainbow tastes the salt it's steelie.

Here is a "rainbow" a dood I know caught out of MY raft when I wasn't in it

People say it's a steelie, but it never saw an ocean.